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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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Rudolf Marekc2433532006-09-03 22:35:21 +020010 * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A
Jean Delvare87501972005-10-31 18:51:21 +010011 Datasheet: available on request from VIA
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070012
Rudolf Marekc2433532006-09-03 22:35:21 +020013 * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235, VT8237R, VT8237A, VT8251
14 Datasheet: available on request and under NDA from VIA
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070016Authors:
Jean Delvare5f49ef82005-09-22 21:50:47 +020017 Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
Jean Delvaref1183012005-09-22 21:58:41 +020018 Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
19 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020
21Module Parameters
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24* force: int
25 Forcibly enable the SMBus controller. DANGEROUS!
26* force_addr: int
27 Forcibly enable the SMBus at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
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29Description
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32i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020033supported VIA south bridges.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070034
35Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
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Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020037 device 1106:3050 (VT82C596A function 3)
38 device 1106:3051 (VT82C596B function 3)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039 device 1106:3057 (VT82C686 function 4)
40 device 1106:3074 (VT8233)
41 device 1106:3147 (VT8233A)
Jean Delvareaaf7f142005-09-22 22:09:07 +020042 device 1106:8235 (VT8231 function 4)
43 device 1106:3177 (VT8235)
44 device 1106:3227 (VT8237R)
Rudolf Marekc2433532006-09-03 22:35:21 +020045 device 1106:3337 (VT8237A)
46 device 1106:3287 (VT8251)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070047
48If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
49enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
Jean Delvaref1183012005-09-22 21:58:41 +020050
51Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
52VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
53are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.