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Date:      Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:11:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Aladdin chipset SMBus support available!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902141208450.13678-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990214155232.61732@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>

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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 08:40:11AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:22:00PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
> >> >
> >> >On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Example program to fetch temperature or voltages is available at
> >> >> http://www.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/~takawata/smbus/examples/
> >> >> There's also an example program to fetch SDRAM info over the smbus.
> >> 
> >> I attach you the detect.c program. It's very simple and may help us
> >> in knowing what I2C hardware you have on your mobo.
> >
> >Where's my detect.c? I think you forgot to attach it :)
> 
> :) here it is!

alpm0: <AcerLabs M15x3 Power Management Unit> rev 0x00 on pci0.3.0
alsmb0: <Aladdin IV/V/Pro2 SMBus controller>
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on alsmb0
smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0

{"/home/green/examples"}$ ./detect
a2 found.
d2 found.

> 
> >
> >> >I tried them, and there's the problem: all the ioctl()s they perform return
> >> >EINTR! Has this driver been tested on many motherboards? Why should I expect
> >> >an EINTR? Just wondering :)
> >> 
> >> EINTR is odd. It just mean that the device at the address requested on the
> >> I2C bus do not respond. I have to translate SMBus errors to the appropriate
> >> unix ones.
> >
> >Hmm... wouldn't the appropriate error for something not responding be an
> >ENXIO or ETIMEDOUT? EINTR seems more than a little wrong for this purpouse.
> 
> Fix committed.
> 
> BTW, as outlined by -pkh all this is just a first step in a huge monitoring
> adventure where all still need to be _defined_ (architecture and interfaces)
> and implemented. Any proposition for doing the job is wellcome,
> since I just have enough time to do the hardware SMBus support.

Sounds like fun....

> 
> Nicholas
> 
> -- 
> nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org
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> 

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