Hi all, We almost have a working and acceptable vt8231 port to Linux 2.6. Thanks to Aaron Marsh for porting the driver originally and to Roger Lucas for polishing it until I could accept it into Linux 2.6. I am now looking for testers. Roger and I made many significant changes to the driver while porting it, the 2.6 version of the driver is actually more of a rewrite than a port. libsensors and sensors received their load of updates to adapt to the changes, and I had to update the lm_sensors (2.4) version of the vt8231 driver as well so that libsensors could possibly support both drivers with the same configuration file. I would now like to make sure that the 2.6 driver works OK and that the 2.4 driver wasn't broken in the process. In order to test the 2.4 driver, you must get lm_sensors CVS: http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/download.html#cvs It should work OK with any version of i2c >= 2.9.0. In order to test the 2.6 driver you also need to get lm_sensors CVS for the user-space part. The driver itself is available as a patch which should apply to linux-2.6.15-rc1 or later just fine: http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/i2c/linux-2.6/hwmon-vt8231-new-driver.patch Make sure you pick etc/sensors.conf.eg in both cases. It has a new section dedicated to the vt8231 driver, which includes all the required changes for the new drivers. For the 2.4 driver, I am particularly interested in feedback about the VID and PWM features. Roger noticed that the VT8231 datasheet doesn't mention these, so the 2.6 driver doesn't include them. If nobody got these working with the 2.4 driver, we may drop them there too, and in libsensors as well. If anyone is up to review the code changes (both the new driver and the recent changes in lm_sensors CVS) they are more than welcome to do so. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
