7 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
8 Datasheet: Once publicly available at the ITE website, but no longer
11 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
12 Datasheet: Once publicly available at the ITE website, but no longer
15 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
16 Datasheet: Once publicly available at the ITE website, but no longer
19 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
20 Datasheet: Once publicly available at the ITE website, but no longer
23 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
24 Datasheet: Not publicly available
27 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
28 Datasheet: Not publicly available
29 * SiS950 [clone of IT8705F]
31 Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports)
32 Datasheet: No longer be available
36 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
44 0 if vbat should report power on value, 1 if vbat should be updated after
45 each read. Default is 0. On some boards the battery voltage is provided
46 by either the battery or the onboard power supply. Only the first reading
47 at power on will be the actual battery voltage (which the chip does
48 automatically). On other boards the battery voltage is always fed to
49 the chip so can be read at any time. Excessive reading may decrease
50 battery life but no information is given in the datasheet.
52 * fix_pwm_polarity int
54 Force PWM polarity to active high (DANGEROUS). Some chips are
55 misconfigured by BIOS - PWM values would be inverted. This option tries
56 to fix this. Please contact your BIOS manufacturer and ask him for fix.
62 All the chips suported by this driver are LPC Super-I/O chips, accessed
63 through the LPC bus (ISA-like I/O ports). The IT8712F additionally has an
64 SMBus interface to the hardware monitoring functions. This driver no
65 longer supports this interface though, as it is slower and less reliable
66 than the ISA access, and was only available on a small number of
73 This driver implements support for the IT8705F, IT8712F, IT8716F,
74 IT8718F, IT8720F, IT8721F, IT8726F, IT8758E and SiS950 chips.
76 These chips are 'Super I/O chips', supporting floppy disks, infrared ports,
77 joysticks and other miscellaneous stuff. For hardware monitoring, they
78 include an 'environment controller' with 3 temperature sensors, 3 fan
79 rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, associated alarms, and chassis
82 The IT8712F and IT8716F additionally feature VID inputs, used to report
83 the Vcore voltage of the processor. The early IT8712F have 5 VID pins,
84 the IT8716F and late IT8712F have 6. They are shared with other functions
85 though, so the functionality may not be available on a given system.
87 The IT8718F and IT8720F also features VID inputs (up to 8 pins) but the value
88 is stored in the Super-I/O configuration space. Due to technical limitations,
89 this value can currently only be read once at initialization time, so
90 the driver won't notice and report changes in the VID value. The two
91 upper VID bits share their pins with voltage inputs (in5 and in6) so you
92 can't have both on a given board.
94 The IT8716F, IT8718F, IT8720F, IT8721F/IT8758E and later IT8712F revisions
95 have support for 2 additional fans. The additional fans are supported by the
98 The IT8716F, IT8718F, IT8720F and IT8721F/IT8758E, and late IT8712F and
99 IT8705F also have optional 16-bit tachometer counters for fans 1 to 3. This
100 is better (no more fan clock divider mess) but not compatible with the older
101 chips and revisions. The 16-bit tachometer mode is enabled by the driver when
102 one of the above chips is detected.
104 The IT8726F is just bit enhanced IT8716F with additional hardware
105 for AMD power sequencing. Therefore the chip will appear as IT8716F
106 to userspace applications.
108 Temperatures are measured in degrees Celsius. An alarm is triggered once
109 when the Overtemperature Shutdown limit is crossed.
111 Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is
112 triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. When
113 16-bit tachometer counters aren't used, fan readings can be divided by
114 a programmable divider (1, 2, 4 or 8) to give the readings more range or
115 accuracy. With a divider of 2, the lowest representable value is around
116 2600 RPM. Not all RPM values can accurately be represented, so some rounding
119 Voltage sensors (also known as IN sensors) report their values in volts. An
120 alarm is triggered if the voltage has crossed a programmable minimum or
121 maximum limit. Note that minimum in this case always means 'closest to
122 zero'; this is important for negative voltage measurements. All voltage
123 inputs can measure voltages between 0 and 4.08 volts, with a resolution of
124 0.016 volt (except IT8721F/IT8758E: 0.012 volt.) The battery voltage in8 does
125 not have limit registers.
127 On the IT8721F/IT8758E, some voltage inputs are internal and scaled inside
128 the chip (in7, in8 and optionally in3). The driver handles this transparently
129 so user-space doesn't have to care.
131 The VID lines (IT8712F/IT8716F/IT8718F/IT8720F) encode the core voltage value:
132 the voltage level your processor should work with. This is hardcoded by
133 the mainboard and/or processor itself. It is a value in volts.
135 If an alarm triggers, it will remain triggered until the hardware register
136 is read at least once. This means that the cause for the alarm may already
137 have disappeared! Note that in the current implementation, all hardware
138 registers are read whenever any data is read (unless it is less than 1.5
139 seconds since the last update). This means that you can easily miss
142 Out-of-limit readings can also result in beeping, if the chip is properly
143 wired and configured. Beeping can be enabled or disabled per sensor type
144 (temperatures, voltages and fans.)
146 The IT87xx only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often
147 will do no harm, but will return 'old' values.
149 To change sensor N to a thermistor, 'echo 4 > tempN_type' where N is 1, 2,
150 or 3. To change sensor N to a thermal diode, 'echo 3 > tempN_type'.
151 Give 0 for unused sensor. Any other value is invalid. To configure this at
152 startup, consult lm_sensors's /etc/sensors.conf. (4 = thermistor;
159 The fan speed control features are limited to manual PWM mode. Automatic
160 "Smart Guardian" mode control handling is only implemented for older chips
161 (see below.) However if you want to go for "manual mode" just write 1 to
164 If you are only able to control the fan speed with very small PWM values,
165 try lowering the PWM base frequency (pwm1_freq). Depending on the fan,
166 it may give you a somewhat greater control range. The same frequency is
167 used to drive all fan outputs, which is why pwm2_freq and pwm3_freq are
171 Automatic fan speed control (old interface)
172 -------------------------------------------
174 The driver supports the old interface to automatic fan speed control
175 which is implemented by IT8705F chips up to revision F and IT8712F
176 chips up to revision G.
178 This interface implements 4 temperature vs. PWM output trip points.
179 The PWM output of trip point 4 is always the maximum value (fan running
180 at full speed) while the PWM output of the other 3 trip points can be
181 freely chosen. The temperature of all 4 trip points can be freely chosen.
182 Additionally, trip point 1 has an hysteresis temperature attached, to
183 prevent fast switching between fan on and off.
185 The chip automatically computes the PWM output value based on the input
186 temperature, based on this simple rule: if the temperature value is
187 between trip point N and trip point N+1 then the PWM output value is
188 the one of trip point N. The automatic control mode is less flexible
189 than the manual control mode, but it reacts faster, is more robust and
190 doesn't use CPU cycles.
192 Trip points must be set properly before switching to automatic fan speed
193 control mode. The driver will perform basic integrity checks before
194 actually switching to automatic control mode.