On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Domenico Andreoli <ca...@dandreoli.com> wrote:
> [i'm subscribed to this list, thanks]
>
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Domenico Andreoli <ca...@dandreoli.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd like to write a hwmon driver for the Radeon GPUs. I made a quick
>> > search in the M56 and M76 register references on AMD's site but didn't
>> > find anything. I then wrote to gpudriverdevsupp...@amd.com and now I'm
>> > waiting for some response. In the meanwhile, has anybody of you seen
>> > anything related to this task while working at the graphic drivers?
>>
>> The thermal and fan chips are generally 3rd party chips connected via
>> i2c.  I think most of the chips used have hwmon drivers already.  You
>> can look up the chip and i2c address in the power tables in the bios.
>> See the PowerPlayInfo table definitions in atombios.h.  I've started
>> work on cleaning up the radeon i2c buses for external use in the
>> drm-radeon-testing branch of Dave's drm tree:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=summary
>
> how this tree is managed? reset or rebased at every release?

That branch isn't managed that well, its pretty much rebased when
I want, its just all the patches that are in flux for 2.6.34. Though
nearly everything in there will end up in a form close to that in 2.6.34.

I may squash some commits together to make bisection useful.

Dave.

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