This is going to take some reading ... thanks for the tips ... Its probably
time I stopped bugging people and got my hands dirty and filled my head
full of numbers (specs maybe).

GPIO ... ok .. I'll keep an eye out.



  ----- Original Message -----
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <Eric W. Biederman>
>To: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject:  Re: couple of Q's - SMBus
>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:56:51 -0700
>
> "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >  
> > > Right this is one of the more interesting things.  Usually a
> > > motherboard will have only one i^2c interface and a mux on the i2c
> > > line to let you select which bus you really want to talk to.
> > > Generally you want to look at the state of the GPIO lines as
> > > those seem to control things like that.
> > Yeah ... I don't quite have the resources for that ... we'll see ...  Marcus 
had
> > a problem
> > 
> > with one of the ASUS chipsets (probably due to this).
> 
> In this case I would guess just look at how they are programmed.  On the
> supermicro p4dc6 it was a little easier because I can see the RAM after
> the system comes up (normal bios) but not when it came up with no 
programming
> on the gpio lines.
> 
> Eric
> 

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