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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fd4b2712d57 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +Kernel driver i2c-i801 + +Supported adapters: + * Intel 82801AA and 82801AB (ICH and ICH0 - part of the + '810' and '810E' chipsets) + * Intel 82801BA (ICH2 - part of the '815E' chipset) + * Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) + * Intel 82801DB (ICH4) (HW PEC supported, 32 byte buffer not supported) + * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported, 32 byte buffer not supported) + * Intel 6300ESB + * Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) + * Intel ICH7 + Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website + +Authors: + Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>, + Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, + Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> + + +Module Parameters +----------------- + +* force_addr: int + Forcibly enable the ICH at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! + + +Description +----------- + +The ICH (properly known as the 82801AA), ICH0 (82801AB), ICH2 (82801BA), +ICH3 (82801CA/CAM) and later devices are Intel chips that are a part of +Intel's '810' chipset for Celeron-based PCs, '810E' chipset for +Pentium-based PCs, '815E' chipset, and others. + +The ICH chips contain at least SEVEN separate PCI functions in TWO logical +PCI devices. An output of lspci will show something similar to the +following: + + 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2418 (rev 01) + 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2410 (rev 01) + 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2411 (rev 01) + 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2412 (rev 01) + 00:1f.3 Unknown class [0c05]: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2413 (rev 01) + +The SMBus controller is function 3 in device 1f. Class 0c05 is SMBus Serial +Controller. + +If you do NOT see the 24x3 device at function 3, and you can't figure out +any way in the BIOS to enable it, + +The ICH chips are quite similar to Intel's PIIX4 chip, at least in the +SMBus controller. + +See the file i2c-piix4 for some additional information. + + +Process Call Support +-------------------- + +Not supported. + + +I2C Block Read Support +---------------------- + +Not supported at the moment. + + +SMBus 2.0 Support +----------------- + +The 82801DB (ICH4) and later chips support several SMBus 2.0 features. + +********************** +The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Texas +Instruments in the initial development of this driver. + +The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Intel in the +development of SMBus 2.0 / ICH4 features of this driver. |