On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:27:42PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > 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.
my habit is to run latest -rc for general testing and bug reporting. if wanted to use this one on a daily basis either I should take it as-is or merge with Linus' one at every -rc, right? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
