Hi Guenter, On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:17:16 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:05:45AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:32:13 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:03:31AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > BTW... A quick search reveals that several Dell XPS Studio laptops > > > > embed an ITE IT8512 infra-red receiver chip. Probably not a > > > > coincidence... > > > > > > > You are right. IT8512E/F is a Super-IO chip from ITE, and it uses 0x8512 as chip ID. > > > > How do you know for sure? Do you have a datasheet? Once we're sure we > > can identify the chip reliably, support should be added to > > sensors-detect. > > > I was able to dig up a datasheet on the web, and checked the chip ID. > The datasheet is at http://www.docin.com/p-4432074.html. The site is in Chinese (?), > and the datasheet is not in pdf but displayed with flash, so it is a bit cumbersome > to read. Indeed not user-friendly, and quite possibly illegal. > Chip ID is 0x8512 (registers 0x20 and 0x21), and chip version is 0x22 (register 0x22). > Not sure if the version is correct, as it matches the register address, but that is > what it says. > > I agree, it would make sense to add it to sensors-detect. I looked through the code, > but wasn't entirely sure how to do that, since the NS chip IDs are all 8 bit. > Can I just add an entry for chip ID 0x8512 ? Yes, this should work. The code automatically figures out if there are one or two device ID registers. > Also, I don't know what to specify as logdev, > since the sensors are all accessed through an embedded 8032 controller. That's more of an issue. The point of listing a logical device is that logical devices can be disabled, so it's a convenient way to figure out whether the monitoring feature is used on a given system. If the "embedded 8032 controller" corresponds to one logical device then that's the one to test. If not, we may have to write custom code for this device. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
