Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 08:54:08 +0900 From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@netstor.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA LM78 driver help Message-ID: <199905222354.IAA09020@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221943010.13140-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net>, Marc Nicholas wrote: >Hello there... > >I have an application where I require access to an LM78 "health monitor" >chip on a certain type of industrial PC motherboard we use. Unfortunately, >the LM78 is tied to ISA and not I2C/SMBus. > >Can anyone recommend a good framework to start writing a driver for this >beastie? I've never actually written a driver before (*gulp*), so please >treat me gently ;-) > >In essense, the chip sits at 0x290 with an address line at 0x290+5 and a >data line at 0x290+6. I'd be happy writing a program that merely peeks and >pokes in that address area, rather than a fully-fledged driver... > >TIA. > I have two imprementation about it. One is userland imprementation based on code by Shimizu-san. It is available at http://www.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/~takawata/smbus/examples/xmbmon104.new.tar.gz And I wrote experimental kernel driver for LM78. http://www.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/~takawata/smbus/sys/lm-dist.tar.gz Regards, Takanori Watanabe <a href="http://www.planet.kobe-u.ac.jp/~takawata/key.html">; Public Key</a> Key fingerprint = 2C 51 E2 78 2C E1 C5 2D 0F F1 20 A3 11 3A 62 2A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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