From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:45:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Intel ICH8/QST Support Message-Id: <20100924044558.GA16034@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:09:52AM -0400, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 18:49 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:35:19PM -0400, Matthew Manuel wrote: > > > Should it be possible to add support for these now that the SDK was released? > > > > > > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/Intel_Quiet_System_Technology_Software_Development_Kit/ > > > > > The programmer's reference manual points to http://www.openamt.org for a linux driver. > > The driver just does a transport of commands from/to the firmware. > It pity though it was never merged upstream. > > The so long waited QST SDK however specifies what to send, and it looks > good. > The PDF included nice detailed description of QST 2.0, while SDK sources > (which are more or less useless other that a good source of > documentation, contain headers that declare commands for QST 1.0, so it > really all covered. More that that, I see that it even included > description on how to manually control the fans if BIOS didn't lock that > up, and passthrough mode to talk to sensors (again if bios didn't lock > that). > > Cool stuff it seems. > Too bad it took so many years, my desktop is quite old now. > Usually Intel is pretty good nowadays in pushing code into the kernel. They would be the natural entity to do it ... Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors