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author | Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> | 2006-01-10 00:46:14 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-02-06 23:02:14 +0300 |
commit | 806ba6409061ae49421319e3745026014abc49c2 (patch) | |
tree | c23a62bb0d8367d38b3e75841d72881d882391c8 /Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x | |
parent | 413b64515079a4063776d81067f69cc41bdb34ad (diff) | |
download | linux-806ba6409061ae49421319e3745026014abc49c2.tar.xz |
[PATCH] i2c: Rename i2c-sis96x documentation file
This patch just renames the documentation file to correct file name.
i2c-sis69x -> i2c-sis96x.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x | 73 |
1 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..00a009b977e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Kernel driver i2c-sis96x + +Replaces 2.4.x i2c-sis645 + +Supported adapters: + * Silicon Integrated Systems Corp (SiS) + Any combination of these host bridges: + 645, 645DX (aka 646), 648, 650, 651, 655, 735, 745, 746 + and these south bridges: + 961, 962, 963(L) + +Author: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> + +Description +----------- + +This SMBus only driver is known to work on motherboards with the above +named chipset combinations. The driver was developed without benefit of a +proper datasheet from SiS. The SMBus registers are assumed compatible with +those of the SiS630, although they are located in a completely different +place. Thanks to Alexander Malysh <amalysh@web.de> for providing the +SiS630 datasheet (and driver). + +The command "lspci" as root should produce something like these lines: + +00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0645 +00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 +00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 + +or perhaps this... + +00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0645 +00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0961 +00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 + +(kernel versions later than 2.4.18 may fill in the "Unknown"s) + +If you cant see it please look on quirk_sis_96x_smbus +(drivers/pci/quirks.c) (also if southbridge detection fails) + +I suspect that this driver could be made to work for the following SiS +chipsets as well: 635, and 635T. If anyone owns a board with those chips +AND is willing to risk crashing & burning an otherwise well-behaved kernel +in the name of progress... please contact me at <mhoffman@lightlink.com> or +via the project's mailing list: <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>. Please +send bug reports and/or success stories as well. + + +TO DOs +------ + +* The driver does not support SMBus block reads/writes; I may add them if a +scenario is found where they're needed. + + +Thank You +--------- + +Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> + - design hints and bug fixes +Alexander Maylsh <amalysh@web.de> + - ditto, plus an important datasheet... almost the one I really wanted +Hans-Günter Lütke Uphues <hg_lu@t-online.de> + - patch for SiS735 +Robert Zwerus <arzie@dds.nl> + - testing for SiS645DX +Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net> + - patch for SiS645DX/962 +Ken Healy + - patch for SiS655 + +To anyone else who has written w/ feedback, thanks! + |