[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[Michael Nelson]

Hi...

I've managed to do it again... bought another motherboard that seems to
have hardware monitoring stuff on it that is not yet supported by
lm-sensors.

The board I have is an Intel D975XBX2KR.  Nice board, but I can't find
anywhere in the documentation on the Intel site or that came with the
board what kind of hw monitoring chip it has.  The monitoring does work
(I can see it in the BIOS setup screens), but running sensors-detect
from lm-sensors 2.10.1 just recommends loading eeprom and i2c-i801.
Naturally, sensors doesn't work.

I grabbed the nightly lm-sensors-r4270-20061223.tar.bz2 and it will
compile "make user" and run sensors-detect.

It says: 

	Probing for `Andigilog aSC7621'...  Success!
          (confidence 5, driver `to-be-written')

So... is someone working on a driver for this chip, or is it a
mis-detection, or?

Thanks
Michael

-- 
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[George T. Joseph (development)]

>So... is someone working on a driver for this chip...

Yep.  I am.  Here's the patch for the kernel.  I was waiting for Jean to
review it before doing the lm_sensors bit but since the Bad Axe 2 is
becoming more popular maybe I'll just do the lm_sensors now and update
it after the review.

Anyway, apply the patch to a 2.6.18 or greater kernel.  Sensors-detect
won't find the driver but you can add a MODULE line to
/etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors manually.

george

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Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:40 PM
To: lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

Hi...

I've managed to do it again... bought another motherboard that seems to
have hardware monitoring stuff on it that is not yet supported by
lm-sensors.

The board I have is an Intel D975XBX2KR.  Nice board, but I can't find
anywhere in the documentation on the Intel site or that came with the
board what kind of hw monitoring chip it has.  The monitoring does work
(I can see it in the BIOS setup screens), but running sensors-detect
from lm-sensors 2.10.1 just recommends loading eeprom and i2c-i801.
Naturally, sensors doesn't work.

I grabbed the nightly lm-sensors-r4270-20061223.tar.bz2 and it will
compile "make user" and run sensors-detect.

It says: 

	Probing for `Andigilog aSC7621'...  Success!
          (confidence 5, driver `to-be-written')

So... is someone working on a driver for this chip, or is it a
mis-detection, or?

Thanks
Michael

-- 
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

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[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[Michael Nelson]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:44:49PM -0700, George T. Joseph (development) wrote:
> 
> Anyway, apply the patch to a 2.6.18 or greater kernel.

I tried applying it to SUSE 10.2's linux-2.6.18.2-34 kernel source.  It
seemed to apply OK and I enabled it in .config, but when I recompiled the
kernel:

<snip>

  CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/adm1031.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/adm9240.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.c', needed by drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [drivers/hwmon] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
    
So I guess it actually did not apply the patch correctly.    

Michael

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tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[George T. Joseph (development)]

Interesting.  I've tested the patch on 2.6.16, 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 kernels
and it works every time.  I have NOT tested it with
distribution-specific kernels though.  

Was drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.c actually created?  The message from make
implies that it wasn't.
Were there ANY messages from patch?
Does a 'patch -R' work cleanly? 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lm-sensors-bounces at lm-sensors.org] On Behalf Of Michael Nelson
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:22 PM
To: lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:44:49PM -0700, George T. Joseph (development)
wrote:
> 
> Anyway, apply the patch to a 2.6.18 or greater kernel.

I tried applying it to SUSE 10.2's linux-2.6.18.2-34 kernel source.  It
seemed to apply OK and I enabled it in .config, but when I recompiled
the
kernel:

<snip>

  CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/adm1031.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/adm9240.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.c', needed by
drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [drivers/hwmon] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
    
So I guess it actually did not apply the patch correctly.    

Michael

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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

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[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[Michael Nelson]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:42:27PM -0700, George T. Joseph (development) wrote:
> Interesting.  I've tested the patch on 2.6.16, 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 kernels
> and it works every time.  I have NOT tested it with
> distribution-specific kernels though.  
> 
> Was drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.c actually created?  The message from make
> implies that it wasn't.
> Were there ANY messages from patch?
> Does a 'patch -R' work cleanly? 

I found it in /usr/src/linux-2.6.19 ... which apparently it created during
the patch process.  Anyway, I copied the stuff I found there (including
asc7xxx.c) into the right places in the linux-2.6.18.2-34 tree and then
compiled again.  It worked, it built it. Rebooted the new kernel and it
inserted fine.

Sensors doesn't show much:

 sensors
 asc7621-i2c-0-2e
 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 4000
 
 
... but gkrellm's sensor stuff shows five temps (one is the Nvidia GPU
temp), four fans, and all the voltages.  Some of the numbers are wierd, but
I suppose a properly tweaked /etc/sensors.conf should bring that in line.

Thanks!

Michael

-- 
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[George T. Joseph (development)]

 
There should be 4 fans, 4 temps (temp 4 is not used by default on the
BX2), 3 PWM (PWM3 controls fans 3 and 4) and 5 voltages.

What's weird? :)

I've also exposed the PECI temps that come directly from the Core 2
processors but since they're relative temps you'll have to read the
Intel and Andigilog docs for info on how to use them.

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[mailto:lm-sensors-bounces at lm-sensors.org] On Behalf Of Michael Nelson
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:12 PM
To: lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:42:27PM -0700, George T. Joseph (development)
wrote:
> Interesting.  I've tested the patch on 2.6.16, 2.6.18 and 2.6.19
kernels
> and it works every time.  I have NOT tested it with
> distribution-specific kernels though.  
> 
> Was drivers/hwmon/asc7xxx.c actually created?  The message from make
> implies that it wasn't.
> Were there ANY messages from patch?
> Does a 'patch -R' work cleanly? 

I found it in /usr/src/linux-2.6.19 ... which apparently it created
during
the patch process.  Anyway, I copied the stuff I found there (including
asc7xxx.c) into the right places in the linux-2.6.18.2-34 tree and then
compiled again.  It worked, it built it. Rebooted the new kernel and it
inserted fine.

Sensors doesn't show much:

 sensors
 asc7621-i2c-0-2e
 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 4000
 
 
... but gkrellm's sensor stuff shows five temps (one is the Nvidia GPU
temp), four fans, and all the voltages.  Some of the numbers are wierd,
but
I suppose a properly tweaked /etc/sensors.conf should bring that in
line.

Thanks!

Michael

-- 
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA

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[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[Jean Delvare]

Hi George,

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:44:49 -0700, George T. Joseph \(development\) wrote:
> >So... is someone working on a driver for this chip...
> 
> Yep.  I am.  Here's the patch for the kernel.  I was waiting for Jean to
> review it before doing the lm_sensors bit but since the Bad Axe 2 is
> becoming more popular maybe I'll just do the lm_sensors now and update
> it after the review.

I am not the only person on earth who can review your driver, and I am
(as usual) very busy. I am currently working a lot on i2c driver core
cleanups and evolutions which are long overdue, I can't review
individual drivers at the same time, I just don't have the time and
energy.

Having user-space support for your driver will make testing easier, so
I invite you to add this support to lm_sensors SVN and post the patch
on this list.

> Anyway, apply the patch to a 2.6.18 or greater kernel.  Sensors-detect
> won't find the driver but you can add a MODULE line to
> /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors manually.

-- 
Jean Delvare

[lm-sensors] Andigilog aSC7621 & Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard

[Michael Nelson]

The gkrellm display of values is working very well.  The "strange numbers" I
saw were in some of the voltages where for some reason there were
multipliers set.  When I set all the multipliers to 1, the values all look
normal.

Thanks for the patch!

Michael

-- 
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
"God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

San Francisco, CA