On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:39:17PM +0530, Sreekanth W wrote: > Thanks again, > > May be I'm new to the Super I/O device, I was just curious to know more > info about it, but not found much info on this device support in Linux, > though I found some code/patch in Coreboot and lm-sensors. > Yes, because there is no need for it when it comes to standard functionality such as UART and floppy access. Coreboot only initializes the chip, and lm-sensors handles hardware monitoring. Guenter > Let me test this device using the UART driver in Linux, and hope it should > work. > > Sreekanth > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:31:38AM +0530, Sreekanth W wrote: > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > Please don't top-post. > > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > Yes, this Super I/O is not a Sensor. > > > But I'm just wondering will it work with the standard Linux 8250 UART > > > driver, or any additional driver is required for this device to control > > > it's Serial port registers and the Serial port to be functional. > > > > > Do you have any indication that there is a problem ? > > > > If not, the time to bother about it is if/when it is not working, not > > beforehand. > > > > Thanks, > > Guenter > > > > > Regards, > > > Sreekanth > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:42:56PM +0530, Sreekanth W wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I would like to know whether the SMSC SIO10n268 Super I/O support > > exist > > > > in > > > > > the Linux kernel? Does it need a Linux Kernel driver? OR does it work > > > > with > > > > > the lm-sensors package? > > > > > > > > > Unless I am missing something, this chip does not have hardware > > monitoring > > > > support, so there won't be a hardware monitoring driver for it. > > > > > > > > > I'm able to detect the device with "sensors-detect" and "superiotool" > > > > > utilities, also able to dump the device registers with "superiotool > > -d". > > > > > > > > > > How to configure a UART port connected to this Super IO device? Is > > there > > > > > any other application/tool for this? > > > > > > > > > Per datasheet: "High Speed NS16C550 Compatible UARTs with Send/Receive > > > > 16-Byte FIFOs". It should behave like a standard UART port. > > > > Do you have any indication that this is not the case ? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Guenter > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
