I think the chips are even pin compatible which means that Tyan could concievably switch from vendor to vendor for each lot of boards. Reading the lm85 docs, I see that there are a couple of documented "enchancements" in the ADT7463 over the LM85, so it's probably a better chip anyway. :v) Jean Delvare wrote: >Hi Paul, > > > >>One question I have is that I have two indentical systems from the >>same manufacturer, Tyan. One has a Celeron CPU and the other has a P4 >>with HT, but the motherboards are the same. On one unit I must use a >>lm85-* in sensors.conf and the the other with a adt7463-* for the >>chips section or the values don't make sense. >> >>Could the different CPU's be causing lmsensors to get confused? I even >>ran the detect routines and came with the same results. What else >>could I do to check this? >> >> > >There's nothing wrong with that. Both chips are mostly compatible, so >Tyan may simply have switched at some point in time for some reason >(price or availabilty for example). You can notice that both chips are >supported by the same driver (lm85). > >You can share a section of sensors.conf among several chips by simply >giving it more than just one chip name. If you take a look at the >default configuration file, that's exactly what we do for the lm85 >driver: > >chip "lm85c-*" "adm1027-*" "adt7463-*" "lm85-*" "lm85b-*" > > set temp1_max 50 > >(...) > >Just do that for your own file and you will have a single file to >maintain for both boards. > > >
