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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001Kernel driver i2c-viapro
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3Supported adapters:
4 * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
5 Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
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Jean Delvare5f49ef82005-09-22 21:50:47 +02007 * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07008 Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
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Jean Delvare87501972005-10-31 18:51:21 +010010 * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237R
11 Datasheet: available on request from VIA
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012
13Authors:
Jean Delvare5f49ef82005-09-22 21:50:47 +020014 Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
Jean Delvaref1183012005-09-22 21:58:41 +020015 Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
16 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
18Module Parameters
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21* force: int
22 Forcibly enable the SMBus controller. DANGEROUS!
23* force_addr: int
24 Forcibly enable the SMBus at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
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26Description
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29i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020030supported VIA south bridges.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070031
32Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
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Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020034 device 1106:3050 (VT82C596A function 3)
35 device 1106:3051 (VT82C596B function 3)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070036 device 1106:3057 (VT82C686 function 4)
37 device 1106:3074 (VT8233)
38 device 1106:3147 (VT8233A)
Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020039 device 1106:8235 (VT8231 function 4)
40 device 1106:3177 (VT8235)
41 device 1106:3227 (VT8237R)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042
43If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
44enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
Jean Delvaref1183012005-09-22 21:58:41 +020045
46Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
47VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
48are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.