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Add support for the VIA VX800/VX820 SMBus. Backported from Linux 2.6.

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1 Kernel driver `i2c-viapro.o'
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3 Status: Stable
4
5 Supported adapters:
6   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
7     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
8
9   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
10     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
11
12   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237R/A, VT8251
13     Datasheet: available on request and under NDA from VIA
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15   * VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700
16     Datasheet: available on request and under NDA from VIA
17
18   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VX800/VX820
19     Datasheet: available on http://linux.via.com.tw
20
21 Authors:
22         Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>
23         Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
24         Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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26
27 Module Parameters
28 -----------------
29
30 * force: int
31   Forcibly enable the SMBus controller. DANGEROUS!
32 * force_addr: int
33   Forcibly enable the SMBus at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
34
35
36 Description
37 -----------
38
39 i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
40 supported VIA south bridges.
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42 Your /proc/pci or lspci -n listing must show one of these :
43
44  device 1106:3050   (VT82C596A function 3)
45  device 1106:3051   (VT82C596B function 3)
46  device 1106:3057   (VT82C686 function 4)
47  device 1106:3074   (VT8233)
48  device 1106:3147   (VT8233A)
49  device 1106:8235   (VT8231 function 4)
50  device 1106:3177   (VT8235)
51  device 1106:3227   (VT8237R)
52  device 1106:3337   (VT8237A)
53  device 1106:3287   (VT8251)
54  device 1106:8324   (CX700)
55  device 1106:8353   (VX800/VX820)
56
57 If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
58 enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
59
60 Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
61 VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
62 are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.
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64 The CX700/VX800/VX820 additionally appears to support SMBus PEC, although
65 this driver doesn't implement it.
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