7 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
8 Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website
12 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
13 Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website
14 http://www.ite.com.tw/
17 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
18 Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website
19 http://www.ite.com.tw/product_info/file/pc/IT8716F_V0.3.ZIP
22 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
23 Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website
24 http://www.ite.com.tw/product_info/file/pc/IT8718F_V0.2.zip
25 http://www.ite.com.tw/product_info/file/pc/IT8718F_V0%203_(for%20C%20version).zip
26 * SiS950 [clone of IT8705F]
28 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
29 Datasheet: No longer be available
32 Christophe Gauthron <chrisg@0-in.com>
33 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
41 0 if vbat should report power on value, 1 if vbat should be updated after
42 each read. Default is 0. On some boards the battery voltage is provided
43 by either the battery or the onboard power supply. Only the first reading
44 at power on will be the actual battery voltage (which the chip does
45 automatically). On other boards the battery voltage is always fed to
46 the chip so can be read at any time. Excessive reading may decrease
47 battery life but no information is given in the datasheet.
49 * fix_pwm_polarity int
51 Force PWM polarity to active high (DANGEROUS). Some chips are
52 misconfigured by BIOS - PWM values would be inverted. This option tries
53 to fix this. Please contact your BIOS manufacturer and ask him for fix.
59 All the chips suported by this driver are LPC Super-I/O chips, accessed
60 through the LPC bus (ISA-like I/O ports). The IT8712F additionally has an
61 SMBus interface to the hardware monitoring functions. This driver no
62 longer supports this interface though, as it is slower and less reliable
63 than the ISA access, and was only available on a small number of
70 This driver implements support for the IT8705F, IT8712F, IT8716F,
71 IT8718F and SiS950 chips.
73 These chips are 'Super I/O chips', supporting floppy disks, infrared ports,
74 joysticks and other miscellaneous stuff. For hardware monitoring, they
75 include an 'environment controller' with 3 temperature sensors, 3 fan
76 rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, and associated alarms.
78 The IT8712F and IT8716F additionally feature VID inputs, used to report
79 the Vcore voltage of the processor. The early IT8712F have 5 VID pins,
80 the IT8716F and late IT8712F have 6. They are shared with other functions
81 though, so the functionality may not be available on a given system.
82 The driver dumbly assume it is there.
84 The IT8718F also features VID inputs (up to 8 pins) but the value is
85 stored in the Super-I/O configuration space. Due to technical limitations,
86 this value can currently only be read once at initialization time, so
87 the driver won't notice and report changes in the VID value. The two
88 upper VID bits share their pins with voltage inputs (in5 and in6) so you
89 can't have both on a given board.
91 The IT8716F, IT8718F and later IT8712F revisions have support for
92 2 additional fans. They are not yet supported by the driver.
94 The IT8716F and IT8718F, and late IT8712F and IT8705F also have optional
95 16-bit tachometer counters for fans 1 to 3. This is better (no more fan
96 clock divider mess) but not compatible with the older chips and
97 revisions. For now, the driver only uses the 16-bit mode on the
100 Temperatures are measured in degrees Celsius. An alarm is triggered once
101 when the Overtemperature Shutdown limit is crossed.
103 Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is
104 triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. When
105 16-bit tachometer counters aren't used, fan readings can be divided by
106 a programmable divider (1, 2, 4 or 8) to give the readings more range or
107 accuracy. With a divider of 2, the lowest representable value is around
108 2600 RPM. Not all RPM values can accurately be represented, so some rounding
111 Voltage sensors (also known as IN sensors) report their values in volts. An
112 alarm is triggered if the voltage has crossed a programmable minimum or
113 maximum limit. Note that minimum in this case always means 'closest to
114 zero'; this is important for negative voltage measurements. All voltage
115 inputs can measure voltages between 0 and 4.08 volts, with a resolution of
116 0.016 volt. The battery voltage in8 does not have limit registers.
118 The VID lines (IT8712F/IT8716F/IT8718F) encode the core voltage value:
119 the voltage level your processor should work with. This is hardcoded by
120 the mainboard and/or processor itself. It is a value in volts.
122 If an alarm triggers, it will remain triggered until the hardware register
123 is read at least once. This means that the cause for the alarm may already
124 have disappeared! Note that in the current implementation, all hardware
125 registers are read whenever any data is read (unless it is less than 1.5
126 seconds since the last update). This means that you can easily miss
129 The IT87xx only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often
130 will do no harm, but will return 'old' values.
132 To change sensor N to a thermistor, 'echo 2 > tempN_type' where N is 1, 2,
133 or 3. To change sensor N to a thermal diode, 'echo 3 > tempN_type'.
134 Give 0 for unused sensor. Any other value is invalid. To configure this at
135 startup, consult lm_sensors's /etc/sensors.conf. (2 = thermistor;
138 The fan speed control features are limited to manual PWM mode. Automatic
139 "Smart Guardian" mode control handling is not implemented. However
140 if you want to go for "manual mode" just write 1 to pwmN_enable.