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1 | Kernel driver smsc47m1 |
| 2 | ====================== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Supported chips: | |
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5 | * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M112, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x, |
| 6 | LPC47M15x and LPC47M192 | |
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7 | Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space |
| 8 | Prefix: 'smsc47m1' | |
| 9 | Datasheets: | |
| 10 | http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47b27x.pdf | |
| 11 | http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m10x.pdf | |
| 6091780e | 12 | http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m112.pdf |
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13 | http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m13x.pdf |
| 14 | http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m14x.pdf | |
| 15 | http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m15x.pdf | |
| 16 | http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m192.pdf | |
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17 | * SMSC LPC47M292 |
| 18 | Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space | |
| 19 | Prefix: 'smsc47m2' | |
| 20 | Datasheet: Not public | |
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21 | * SMSC LPC47M997 |
| 22 | Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space | |
| 23 | Prefix: 'smsc47m1' | |
| 24 | Datasheet: none | |
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25 | |
| 26 | Authors: | |
| 27 | Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>, | |
| 28 | With assistance from Bruce Allen <ballen@uwm.edu>, and his | |
| 29 | fan.c program: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/%7Eballen/driver/ | |
| 30 | Gabriele Gorla <gorlik@yahoo.com>, | |
| 31 | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | Description | |
| 34 | ----------- | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | The Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC) 47M1xx Super I/O chips | |
| 37 | contain monitoring and PWM control circuitry for two fans. | |
| 38 | ||
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39 | The LPC47M15x, LPC47M192 and LPC47M292 chips contain a full 'hardware |
| 40 | monitoring block' in addition to the fan monitoring and control. The | |
| 41 | hardware monitoring block is not supported by this driver, use the | |
| 42 | smsc47m192 driver for that. | |
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44 | No documentation is available for the 47M997, but it has the same device |
| 45 | ID as the 47M15x and 47M192 chips and seems to be compatible. | |
| 46 | ||
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47 | Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is |
| 48 | triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. Fan | |
| 49 | readings can be divided by a programmable divider (1, 2, 4 or 8) to give | |
| 50 | the readings more range or accuracy. Not all RPM values can accurately be | |
| 51 | represented, so some rounding is done. With a divider of 2, the lowest | |
| 52 | representable value is around 2600 RPM. | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | PWM values are from 0 to 255. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | If an alarm triggers, it will remain triggered until the hardware register | |
| 57 | is read at least once. This means that the cause for the alarm may | |
| 58 | already have disappeared! Note that in the current implementation, all | |
| 59 | hardware registers are read whenever any data is read (unless it is less | |
| 60 | than 1.5 seconds since the last update). This means that you can easily | |
| 61 | miss once-only alarms. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | ||
| 64 | ********************** | |
| 65 | The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of | |
| 66 | Intel in the development of this driver. |