Changeset 3222

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01/07/06 16:45:59 (3 years ago)
Author:
khali
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Clarify the W83627THF VID documentation. Backport from Linux 2.6,
original patch from Mark M. Hoffman.

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  • lm-sensors/trunk/doc/chips/w83627hf

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    7878now that this ISA driver has been developed. 
    7979 
    80 Technically, the w83627thf does not support a VID reading.  However, it's 
    81 possible or even likely that your mainboard maker has routed these signals 
    82 to a specific set of general purpose IO pins (the Asus P4C800-E is one such 
    83 board).  The w83627thf driver now interprets these as VID.  If the VID on 
    84 your board doesn't work, first see doc/vid in the lm_sensors package.  If 
    85 that still doesn't help, email us at lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org. 
     80The w83627_HF_ uses pins 110-106 as VID0-VID4. The w83627_THF_ uses the 
     81same pins as GPIO[0:4]. Technically, the w83627_THF_ does not support a 
     82VID reading. However the two chips have the identical 128 pin package. So, 
     83it is possible or even likely for a w83627thf to have the VID signals routed 
     84to these pins despite their not being labeled for that purpose. Therefore, 
     85the w83627thf driver interprets these as VID. If the VID on your board 
     86doesn't work, first see doc/vid. If that still doesn't help, you may just 
     87ignore the bogus VID reading with no harm done. 
    8688 
    8789For further information on this driver, /proc values, etc.