Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:01:36 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> Cc: dgilbert@velocet.ca, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smbus not quite right? Message-ID: <14239.10592.948209.726743@trooper.velocet.ca> In-Reply-To: <19990724180824.18086@breizh.teaser.fr> References: <199907190324.XAA08403@strike.velocet.ca> <19990724180824.18086@breizh.teaser.fr>
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>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> writes: Nicolas> On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:24:05PM -0400, dgilbert@velocet.ca Nicolas> wrote: >> I have a machine with a P5A motherboard, which probes as follows: >> >> pcf0: <PCF8584 I2C bus controller> iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on >> pcf0 addr 0xaa iicsmb0: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus0 smbus0: >> <System Management Bus> on iicsmb0 smb0: <SMBus general purpose >> I/O> on smbus0 iic0: <I2C general purpose I/O> on iicbus0 >> >> Now... If I run mbmon in ISA mode, which opens /dev/io, it works. >> If I run it in in smbus mode, which opens /dev/smb0, it fails. >> Having read the documentation on /dev/io, I'd rather not have that >> ability on a server... I would guess that it requires an insecure >> level. Nicolas> Whats mbmon? You have actually a Philips PCF8584 connected to Nicolas> your ISA bus? mbmon is a little application (inside a xmbmon tarball) that probes this chipset for information. I don't actually know any details about my chipset per se, but it would appear that I do have a pcf8584... Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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