From 3faa1ffb4f4be7d10715f4b003ff7b27d14eae26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans de Goede Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:28:45 +0200 Subject: hwmon: Add support for newer uGuru's This patch adds a new driver for the hardware monitoring features of the third revision of the Abit uGuru chip, found on recent Abit motherboards. This is an entirely different beast then the first and second revision (its again a winbond microcontroller, but the "protocol" to talk to it and the bank addresses are very different. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman --- Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3 | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3 (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3 b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fa598aac22f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru3 @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Kernel driver abituguru3 +======================== + +Supported chips: + * Abit uGuru revision 3 (Hardware Monitor part, reading only) + Prefix: 'abituguru3' + Addresses scanned: ISA 0x0E0 + Datasheet: Not available, this driver is based on reverse engineering. + Note: + The uGuru is a microcontroller with onboard firmware which programs + it to behave as a hwmon IC. There are many different revisions of the + firmware and thus effectivly many different revisions of the uGuru. + Below is an incomplete list with which revisions are used for which + Motherboards: + uGuru 1.00 ~ 1.24 (AI7, KV8-MAX3, AN7) + uGuru 2.0.0.0 ~ 2.0.4.2 (KV8-PRO) + uGuru 2.1.0.0 ~ 2.1.2.8 (AS8, AV8, AA8, AG8, AA8XE, AX8) + uGuru 2.3.0.0 ~ 2.3.0.9 (AN8) + uGuru 3.0.0.0 ~ 3.0.x.x (AW8, AL8, AT8, NI8 SLI, AT8 32X, AN8 32X, + AW9D-MAX) + The abituguru3 driver is only for revison 3.0.x.x motherboards, + this driver will not work on older motherboards. For older + motherboards use the abituguru (without the 3 !) driver. + +Authors: + Hans de Goede , + (Initial reverse engineering done by Louis Kruger) + + +Module Parameters +----------------- + +* force: bool Force detection. Note this parameter only causes the + detection to be skipped, and thus the insmod to + succeed. If the uGuru can't be read the actual hwmon + driver will not load and thus no hwmon device will get + registered. +* verbose: bool Should the driver be verbose? + 0/off/false normal output + 1/on/true + verbose error reporting (default) + Default: 1 (the driver is still in the testing phase) + +Description +----------- + +This driver supports the hardware monitoring features of the third revision of +the Abit uGuru chip, found on recent Abit uGuru featuring motherboards. + +The 3rd revision of the uGuru chip in reality is a Winbond W83L951G. +Unfortunatly this doesn't help since the W83L951G is a generic microcontroller +with a custom Abit application running on it. + +Despite Abit not releasing any information regarding the uGuru revision 3, +Louis Kruger has managed to reverse engineer the sensor part of the uGuru. +Without his work this driver would not have been possible. + +Known Issues +------------ + +The voltage and frequency control parts of the Abit uGuru are not supported, +neither is writing any of the sensor settings and writing / reading the +fanspeed control registers (FanEQ) + +If you encounter any problems please mail me and +include the output of: "dmesg | grep abituguru" -- cgit v1.2.3