Hi Hans, > Maybe I should make my relation to Hans Edgington clear. As you may know > I'm a university Computer Science teacher and Hans E. is a student of > mine. As part of his / her last year every student must work on a > project for 1 day / week during 5 months. Normally the project > assignments come from real companies, but when we don't have enough > assignments the teacher(s) create assignments for these projects. After > seeing the mail from Age Huisman on this I thought it would be a fun > project for a student to write a driver for this sensors chip. Yes, I think this is a good idea, both interesting for the student and useful for the user waiting for this chip to be supported. > At first I thought this driver would be much like the uguru driver, but > I see now with the superio stuff that it will be somewhat different, > what would be a good driver to start with as a skeleton to base this > driver on? There's nothing like the uGuru :p I'd suggest working off the f71805f driver, as it supports a Fintek chip so the Super-I/O code should be very similar. > Also are there datasheets of similar (fintek) superio chips available > somewhere, those could be of great help. The Fintek datasheets are unfortunately not publicly available as far as I know. But Winbond has good datasheets and the Super-I/O mechanism is pretty standard, so you can start from there (see Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf for URLs). Or you can simply look at the f71805f driver code, I would hope it is clear enough. BTW the Super-I/O mechanism is essentially based on Intel's LPC specification, which is publicly available here: http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/industry/lpc.htm But it's highly technical and you don't really need to know the details to write a driver. Hope that helps, -- Jean Delvare
