Hi Guenter, Michael, On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 19:18:43 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:17:43PM -0600, Michael P Dixon wrote: > > I am interested in obtaining a driver for the PC87372 chip. sensors-detect > > lists it as 'to be written'. I understand that since it is such an old chip > > that it could be very low priority, if it has a priority at all. What kind > > of an effort would it take to produce this driver? The devices page says: *A > > driver has been requested, will be developed upon donation of a board. *What > > are the specifics of this? What kind of board? Any feedback is appreciated. > > presumably that was supposed to mean a board with the chip on it. Correct. Any donation is welcome, but giving a board with the right chip additionally allows for driver testing. > Even with a board, I for my part would not have time for writing a driver. > Given the age of the chip, my expectations for finding someone to write > a driver would be quite low. Any chance doing it yourself ? Well, before anyone spends time writing a driver, Michael should ensure that such a driver is really needed. All previous investigations of PC87372 user cases came to the conclusion that this chip was not used for monitoring, and instead a dedicated monitoring chip was connected to the SMBus. So, Michael, I suggest that you run sensors-detect again. When you reach the SMBus probing question, the default answer will be "no", say "yes" instead. Odds are that the script will find some LM85-compatible chip on the SMBus and loading the lm85 driver will enable hardware monitoring on your system. If I am correct, I will update the sensors-detect script to change the SMBus probing default to "yes" whenever a PC87372 is detected. -- Jean Delvare http://jdelvare.nerim.net/wishlist.html _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
