Jean; Thank you for the insight. I plan on using kernel 2.6 mostly because of SATA support. My other possibility is an ASUS PC DL Deluxe board where I feel lm_sensors would have no problems. But since the Intel board "seems" to have better SATA chips, meaning less problems with a standard installation, I had set my heart on that one. So, it looks like a difficult choice. As I told another person that had some suggestions similar to yours, I'll let you know how it works out. If you have some pointers about the ASUS board, I would like to hear them also. Miguel -- Konsultex Informatica (http://www.konsultex.com.br) ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> To: Miguel Koren OBrien de Lacy <miguelk at konsultex.com.br> Cc: LM Sensors <sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com> Sent: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:10:43 +0100 Subject: Re: Intel motherboard support question > Hi Miguel, > > > I'm thinking of using the Intel SE7320SP2 board > > (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7320sp2/index.htm) which > > has the Intel E7320 chipsetand. I haven't been able to find out if it > > will work with lm_sensors. Would it work? > > The E7320 includes an ICH-5R component, for which we have a driver. This > gives you access to the board SMBus (on which hardware monitoring chips > usually live). > > The technical documentation of the board says that it uses a National > Semiconductor LM93 chip for hardware monitoring. It also mentions mBMC > and IPMI, which makes me wonder if the LM93 is directly accessible over > the SMBus or not. > > There is a LM93 driver available for Linux 2.4, written by Mark M. > Hoffman. The driver was not ported to 2.6 yet, but maybe Mark or someone > else will do at some point in the future. > > We also have some support for BMC/IPMI but only for Linux 2.4 and it is > somewhat experimental as I understand it. > > The board also has a Super-I/O chip which may hold hardware monitoring > functions. The datasheet isn't very clear whether this is a PC87417 or > PC87427. The latter has hardware monitoring capabilities, but this > sounds somewhat redundant with the aforementioned LM93. > > Put in short, the board is pretty new and support for it is just being > added or missing at the moment, depending on the exact design, which I > cannot guess. You should not pick this one it you want hardware > monitoring to work right out of the box, because it most likely won't, > especially if you intend to use Linux 2.6 kernels. However, the board > seems to have a very good potential for hardware monitoring, and all the > chips used are fairly well documented, so whatever support is missing > can be added later (but with no timeline). > > > Is there a list to tell which motheborads work with lm_sensors? > > No, we don't have such a list. As written in our FAQ, we support chips, > not boards. Tracking all boards out there is too broad a task, and > hardly interesting since our drivers are aimed at chips, not boards, > anyway. > > Lists of supported chips: > http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/supported.html > http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/newdrivers.html > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/chips/SUMMARY > > Chip/board list from the MBM project (discontinued): > http://mbm.livewiredev.com/mobolist.html > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://khali.linux-fr.org/ > > -- > Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv?rus e > acredita-se estar livre de perigo. ------- End of Original Message ------- -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv?rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.
