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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/it87 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/lm78 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 | 31 |
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 index 38425f0f264..6f496a58673 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ IT8718F, IT8720F, IT8721F, IT8726F, IT8758E and SiS950 chips. These chips are 'Super I/O chips', supporting floppy disks, infrared ports, joysticks and other miscellaneous stuff. For hardware monitoring, they include an 'environment controller' with 3 temperature sensors, 3 fan -rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, and associated alarms. +rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, associated alarms, and chassis +intrusion detection. The IT8712F and IT8716F additionally feature VID inputs, used to report the Vcore voltage of the processor. The early IT8712F have 5 VID pins, diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 index 60932e26aba..2bdc881a0c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Supported chips: Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website http://www.national.com/ -Author: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> +Authors: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> + Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Description ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f83bd1c260f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Kernel driver sch5636 +===================== + +Supported chips: + * SMSC SCH5636 + Prefix: 'sch5636' + Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space + +Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> + + +Description +----------- + +SMSC SCH5636 Super I/O chips include an embedded microcontroller for +hardware monitoring solutions, allowing motherboard manufacturers to create +their own custom hwmon solution based upon the SCH5636. + +Currently the sch5636 driver only supports the Fujitsu Theseus SCH5636 based +hwmon solution. The sch5636 driver runs a sanity check on loading to ensure +it is dealing with a Fujitsu Theseus and not with another custom SCH5636 based +hwmon solution. + +The Fujitsu Theseus can monitor up to 5 voltages, 8 fans and 16 +temperatures. Note that the driver detects how many fan headers / +temperature sensors are actually implemented on the motherboard, so you will +likely see fewer temperature and fan inputs. + +An application note describing the Theseus' registers, as well as an +application note describing the protocol for communicating with the +microcontroller is available upon request. Please mail me if you want a copy. |