Hi: On the subject of using an existing driver, quite a while back I looked hard for options to use. All fell short but the fscscy.c driver for the Fujitsu-Siemens Scylla chip looked promising. Alas there was no kernel module for it so I could not test it. ( I never found out why fscscy.o is MIA... ) The /usr/share/doc/packages/sensors/chips/fscscy does exist. This GA-2CEWH mainboard is used in the Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius V workstation. The F-S CV has a few extra connectors that GBT yanked for the OEM board but it is the same mobo. There may be other systems out there but that one I know about for certain. That is why I looked at F-S drivers. This EMC6W201 is a little more advanced than the scylla chip but modifying the code for the fscscy.c might make the whole task easier. ( It has most of the items and is for dual CPUs too. ) I started doing that some months back but ran into the fact that my c skills are very low and had to stop to learn c better(other issues too...). I am still not there, :). So what about that idea? Would that be harder than starting fresh or not? ... A side issue for this GBT GA-2CEWH mobo is that some of the fans and most of the voltages information are provided by the IT8712F. This morning I found that the fan2 & fan3 are actually the chipsets' fans. ... In addition fan1 is one of the fan connectors on the mainboard. IOW, the IT8712F is providing some of the sensor data even though GBT said it did not have that function. It appears that the SMSC device main task is to get voltages and, possibly, control the PWM fan speeds. It does not do the latter at all. The PWM fans are set at lowest possible rev and kept there(800RPM when it s/b 2500RPM) -BIOS is the cause, I am sure. :( The point of this being that there are 3 more fans that the IT8712F can monitor, according to the datasheet, but it appears that the 8712F driver does not have those other 3 fans. If so, is there anybody working on upgrading that driver? Regards, Ric ================ --- Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.cz> wrote: > Ric wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I don't think so. The EMC6w201 uses the SMBus... > > Seems like, IIRC, that's why the smsc47* cannot be used. > > Ok. > > > Is it possible to make a usable driver by implementing only > temperature > > readings first, then later adding voltages, then still later fans' > > RPMs, then PWM fan control, etc... rather than trying to get all of > it > > done at one whack? > > Sure, I think we can just start with fans and temps, same was for > winbond EHF > driver. > > Regards > Rudolf > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
