1Kernel driver i2c-sis96x
2
3Replaces 2.4.x i2c-sis645
4
5Supported adapters:
6  * Silicon Integrated Systems Corp (SiS)
7    Any combination of these host bridges:
8	645, 645DX (aka 646), 648, 650, 651, 655, 735, 745, 746
9    and these south bridges:
10    	961, 962, 963(L)
11
12Author: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
13
14Description
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17This SMBus only driver is known to work on motherboards with the above
18named chipset combinations. The driver was developed without benefit of a
19proper datasheet from SiS. The SMBus registers are assumed compatible with
20those of the SiS630, although they are located in a completely different
21place. Thanks to Alexander Malysh <amalysh@web.de> for providing the
22SiS630 datasheet (and  driver).
23
24The command "lspci" as root should produce something like these lines:
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2600:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0645
2700:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
2800:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
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30or perhaps this...
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3200:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0645
3300:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0961
3400:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
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36(kernel versions later than 2.4.18 may fill in the "Unknown"s)
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38If you can't see it please look on quirk_sis_96x_smbus
39(drivers/pci/quirks.c) (also if southbridge detection fails)
40
41I suspect that this driver could be made to work for the following SiS
42chipsets as well: 635, and 635T. If anyone owns a board with those chips
43AND is willing to risk crashing & burning an otherwise well-behaved kernel
44in the name of progress... please contact me at <mhoffman@lightlink.com> or
45via the linux-i2c mailing list: <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>.  Please send bug
46reports and/or success stories as well.
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49TO DOs
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52* The driver does not support SMBus block reads/writes; I may add them if a
53scenario is found where they're needed.
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55
56Thank You
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58
59Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
60 - design hints and bug fixes
61Alexander Maylsh <amalysh@web.de>
62 - ditto, plus an important datasheet... almost the one I really wanted
63Hans-Günter Lütke Uphues <hg_lu@t-online.de>
64 - patch for SiS735
65Robert Zwerus <arzie@dds.nl>
66 - testing for SiS645DX
67Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net>
68 - patch for SiS645DX/962
69Ken Healy
70 - patch for SiS655
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72To anyone else who has written w/ feedback, thanks!
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