[lm-sensors] Winbond W83667HG Super IO Sensors

[lm-sensors] Winbond W83667HG Super IO Sensors

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

sensors-detect reports 'to-be-written'. Is someone already
working on this driver?

I ported the fscher driver in 2003. Maybe I could try to port
some existing driver for this chip too.

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
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Re: [lm-sensors] Winbond W83667HG Super IO Sensors

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Reinhard,

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:35:26 +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> sensors-detect reports 'to-be-written'. Is someone already
> working on this driver?

Yes, Gong Jun (Cc'd) is working on adding support to the w83627ehf
driver already. He posted a patch [1] which I have reviewed [2] and
updated a bit [3]. It might be a bit difficult to grab from the list
archive so I am making it temporarily available for download at:
http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/sensors/hwmon-add-support-for-w83667hg.patch
You are very welcome to test it and report.

At this point I consider the patch usable but it needs some more work
for upstream acceptance (at least in the form of a comment about the
in6 special code, and maybe some related code changes.) I am waiting
for Gong Jun to comment on my review.

[1] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024802.html
[2] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024880.html
[3] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024881.html

> I ported the fscher driver in 2003. Maybe I could try to port
> some existing driver for this chip too.

BTW, is this system still in use? We moved support for all FSC chips to
a unified driver (fschmd). If your system still works, you might want
to give it a try and report how it's doing for you.

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Re: [lm-sensors] Winbond W83667HG Super IO Sensors

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Jean Delvare schrieb:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:35:26 +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
>> sensors-detect reports 'to-be-written'. Is someone already
>> working on this driver?
> 
> Yes, Gong Jun (Cc'd) is working on adding support to the w83627ehf
> driver already. He posted a patch [1] which I have reviewed [2] and
> updated a bit [3]. It might be a bit difficult to grab from the list
> archive so I am making it temporarily available for download at:
> http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/sensors/hwmon-add-support-for-w83667hg.patch
> You are very welcome to test it and report.

Thanks for your reply. I've found this patch meanwhile myself
too. I'm currently building a new kernel which contains the patch.

> At this point I consider the patch usable but it needs some more work
> for upstream acceptance (at least in the form of a comment about the
> in6 special code, and maybe some related code changes.) I am waiting
> for Gong Jun to comment on my review.

I've seen your comment about in6 and share your opinion. BTW:
motherboard is ASUS P6T WS Professional.

> [1] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024802.html
> [2] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024880.html
> [3] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024881.html
> 
>> I ported the fscher driver in 2003. Maybe I could try to port
>> some existing driver for this chip too.
> 
> BTW, is this system still in use? We moved support for all FSC chips to
> a unified driver (fschmd). If your system still works, you might want
> to give it a try and report how it's doing for you.

Oh yes, it is still in use. Is the unified driver already part of
kernel 2.6.27.7? If it is, I'll come across is it when I update
the "old" machine to openSUSE 11.1. But this will be quite some
time after the "new" machine is working properly with openSUSE
11.1. So far it took me two weeks to get the harddrive working.

Bye.
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Re: [lm-sensors] Winbond W83667HG Super IO Sensors

[Jean Delvare]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:39:50 +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> > BTW, is this system still in use? We moved support for all FSC chips to
> > a unified driver (fschmd). If your system still works, you might want
> > to give it a try and report how it's doing for you.
> 
> Oh yes, it is still in use. Is the unified driver already part of
> kernel 2.6.27.7? If it is, I'll come across is it when I update

Yes, all kernels since 2.6.24 have the new fschmd driver with support
for all FSC hardware monitoring chips. The only feature which is
missing is the watchdog support, which will only be added in kernel
2.6.29.

> the "old" machine to openSUSE 11.1. But this will be quite some
> time after the "new" machine is working properly with openSUSE
> 11.1. So far it took me two weeks to get the harddrive working.

If you don't use the watchdog feature, the kernel in openSUSE 11.1 will
do just fine. If you do, you'll have to wait some more.

Thanks,
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Jean Delvare

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