Hi all, Is there any documentation about the i2c multimedia channel? I'm also interested in adding such a feature to my system in order to monitor my ATI radeon's (3650HD) temperature/fan. Regards, Ilyes. Hans de Goede wrote: > Thomas wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> I wonder how difficult it would be to incorporate temperature and >> fanspeed of ATI graphics cards into lm-sensors. >> >> There is the aticonfig tool which provides the data (and more, like >> clockspeeds, ...): >> aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature >> aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0" >> >> What would be the best way to do that? >> I guess I could do if I knew where to start :) >> > > aticonfig is part of the proprietary driver, so lets forget about that path, > besides that we really want to do this as standard in kernel hwmon drivers so > that existing lm_sensors aware tools will just pick this info up as one > additional sensor in the system. > > I've actually been looking into this, and it should be quite doable. I've > looked at how to do this for my radeon 9800pro, so your milage may very with > other cards. > > For my 9800 pro there is a standard (and already supported) fintek i2c hwmon IC > (I don't remember the exact model) on the card. The big problem was that its on > the radeon multimedia i2c channel, for which no in kernel i2c master ("adapter" > in kernel / lm_sensor speak) driver exists, now this is fixable by just writing > such a driver, but the problem is that the X server in some special cases (ATI > all in wonder hardware) actually uses this i2c channel and thus pokes the > register of the multimedia i2c controller off the radeon from userspace. > > But in comes modesetting, and it comes to the rescue in this case, as > modesetting completely removes the need and ability for userspace to directly > poke radeon registers. This has broken all in wonder support, but I'm sure this > will get fixed eventually and that is a price we will have to pay for progress. > > In the hwmon case this is actually really good as now the way is free to add > multimedia i2c support to the drm driver (and this is something which will be > needed to fix the all in wonder cards) and once the i2c multimedia channel is > supported as a normal kernel i2c adapter, lm_sensors should just work, atleast > for my 9800. > > I've discussed this with Dave Airlie during the Linux Plumbers Conference, and > he agreed that adding support for the multimedia i2c channel to the drm driver > is the way forward. I've added him to the CC in case he has anything to add. > > If you want to look into adding support for hwmon to ati cards, writing > multimedia i2c channel drm driver code would be the first step. I believe Dave > Airlied is the person to talk to if you want to do that. I will gladly > volunteer as a tester for this. (radeon 9800, radeon x1950 pro) > > Regards, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors