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Documentation / hwmon / smsc47m1

Based on kernel version 2.6.26. Page generated on 2008-07-16 21:12 EST.

1	Kernel driver smsc47m1
2	======================
3	
4	Supported chips:
5	  * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M112, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x,
6	    LPC47M15x and LPC47M192
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
12	        http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m112.pdf
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
17	  * SMSC LPC47M292
18	    Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
19	    Prefix: 'smsc47m2'
20	    Datasheet: Not public
21	  * SMSC LPC47M997
22	    Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
23	    Prefix: 'smsc47m1'
24	    Datasheet: none
25	
26	Authors:
27	        Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123[AT]yahoo[DOT]com>,
28	        With assistance from Bruce Allen <ballen[AT]uwm[DOT]edu>, and his
29	        fan.c program: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/%7Eballen/driver/
30	        Gabriele Gorla <gorlik[AT]yahoo[DOT]com>,
31	        Jean Delvare <khali[AT]linux-fr[DOT]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	
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.
43	
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	
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.
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