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1Kernel driver pc87360
2=====================
3
4Supported chips:
5
6  * National Semiconductor PC87360, PC87363, PC87364, PC87365 and PC87366
7
8    Prefixes: 'pc87360', 'pc87363', 'pc87364', 'pc87365', 'pc87366'
9
10    Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space
11
12    Datasheets: No longer available
13
14Authors: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
15
16Thanks to Sandeep Mehta, Tonko de Rooy and Daniel Ceregatti for testing.
17
18Thanks to Rudolf Marek for helping me investigate conversion issues.
19
20
21Module Parameters
22-----------------
23
24* init int
25    Chip initialization level:
26
27    - 0: None
28    - **1**: Forcibly enable internal voltage and temperature channels,
29      except in9
30    - 2: Forcibly enable all voltage and temperature channels, except in9
31    - 3: Forcibly enable all voltage and temperature channels, including in9
32
33Note that this parameter has no effect for the PC87360, PC87363 and PC87364
34chips.
35
36Also note that for the PC87366, initialization levels 2 and 3 don't enable
37all temperature channels, because some of them share pins with each other,
38so they can't be used at the same time.
39
40
41Description
42-----------
43
44The National Semiconductor PC87360 Super I/O chip contains monitoring and
45PWM control circuitry for two fans. The PC87363 chip is similar, and the
46PC87364 chip has monitoring and PWM control for a third fan.
47
48The National Semiconductor PC87365 and PC87366 Super I/O chips are complete
49hardware monitoring chipsets, not only controlling and monitoring three fans,
50but also monitoring eleven voltage inputs and two (PC87365) or up to four
51(PC87366) temperatures.
52
53  =========== ======= ======= ======= ======= =====
54  Chip        #vin    #fan    #pwm    #temp   devid
55  =========== ======= ======= ======= ======= =====
56  PC87360     -       2       2       -       0xE1
57  PC87363     -       2       2       -       0xE8
58  PC87364     -       3       3       -       0xE4
59  PC87365     11      3       3       2       0xE5
60  PC87366     11      3       3       3-4     0xE9
61  =========== ======= ======= ======= ======= =====
62
63The driver assumes that no more than one chip is present, and one of the
64standard Super I/O addresses is used (0x2E/0x2F or 0x4E/0x4F)
65
66Fan Monitoring
67--------------
68
69Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (revolutions per minute). An alarm
70is triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit.
71A different alarm is triggered if the fan speed is too low to be measured.
72
73Fan readings are affected by a programmable clock divider, giving the
74readings more range or accuracy. Usually, users have to learn how it works,
75but this driver implements dynamic clock divider selection, so you don't
76have to care no more.
77
78For reference, here are a few values about clock dividers:
79
80    =========== =============== =============== ===========
81		slowest         accuracy        highest
82		measurable      around 3000     accurate
83    divider     speed (RPM)     RPM (RPM)       speed (RPM)
84    =========== =============== =============== ===========
85	 1        1882              18           6928
86	 2         941              37           4898
87	 4         470              74           3464
88	 8         235             150           2449
89    =========== =============== =============== ===========
90
91For the curious, here is how the values above were computed:
92
93 * slowest measurable speed: clock/(255*divider)
94 * accuracy around 3000 RPM: 3000^2/clock
95 * highest accurate speed: sqrt(clock*100)
96
97The clock speed for the PC87360 family is 480 kHz. I arbitrarily chose 100
98RPM as the lowest acceptable accuracy.
99
100As mentioned above, you don't have to care about this no more.
101
102Note that not all RPM values can be represented, even when the best clock
103divider is selected. This is not only true for the measured speeds, but
104also for the programmable low limits, so don't be surprised if you try to
105set, say, fan1_min to 2900 and it finally reads 2909.
106
107
108Fan Control
109-----------
110
111PWM (pulse width modulation) values range from 0 to 255, with 0 meaning
112that the fan is stopped, and 255 meaning that the fan goes at full speed.
113
114Be extremely careful when changing PWM values. Low PWM values, even
115non-zero, can stop the fan, which may cause irreversible damage to your
116hardware if temperature increases too much. When changing PWM values, go
117step by step and keep an eye on temperatures.
118
119One user reported problems with PWM. Changing PWM values would break fan
120speed readings. No explanation nor fix could be found.
121
122
123Temperature Monitoring
124----------------------
125
126Temperatures are reported in degrees Celsius. Each temperature measured has
127associated low, high and overtemperature limits, each of which triggers an
128alarm when crossed.
129
130The first two temperature channels are external. The third one (PC87366
131only) is internal.
132
133The PC87366 has three additional temperature channels, based on
134thermistors (as opposed to thermal diodes for the first three temperature
135channels). For technical reasons, these channels are held by the VLM
136(voltage level monitor) logical device, not the TMS (temperature
137measurement) one. As a consequence, these temperatures are exported as
138voltages, and converted into temperatures in user-space.
139
140Note that these three additional channels share their pins with the
141external thermal diode channels, so you (physically) can't use them all at
142the same time. Although it should be possible to mix the two sensor types,
143the documents from National Semiconductor suggest that motherboard
144manufacturers should choose one type and stick to it. So you will more
145likely have either channels 1 to 3 (thermal diodes) or 3 to 6 (internal
146thermal diode, and thermistors).
147
148
149Voltage Monitoring
150------------------
151
152Voltages are reported relatively to a reference voltage, either internal or
153external. Some of them (in7:Vsb, in8:Vdd and in10:AVdd) are divided by two
154internally, you will have to compensate in sensors.conf. Others (in0 to in6)
155are likely to be divided externally. The meaning of each of these inputs as
156well as the values of the resistors used for division is left to the
157motherboard manufacturers, so you will have to document yourself and edit
158sensors.conf accordingly. National Semiconductor has a document with
159recommended resistor values for some voltages, but this still leaves much
160room for per motherboard specificities, unfortunately. Even worse,
161motherboard manufacturers don't seem to care about National Semiconductor's
162recommendations.
163
164Each voltage measured has associated low and high limits, each of which
165triggers an alarm when crossed.
166
167When available, VID inputs are used to provide the nominal CPU Core voltage.
168The driver will default to VRM 9.0, but this can be changed from user-space.
169The chipsets can handle two sets of VID inputs (on dual-CPU systems), but
170the driver will only export one for now. This may change later if there is
171a need.
172
173
174General Remarks
175---------------
176
177If an alarm triggers, it will remain triggered until the hardware register
178is read at least once. This means that the cause for the alarm may already
179have disappeared! Note that all hardware registers are read whenever any
180data is read (unless it is less than 2 seconds since the last update, in
181which case cached values are returned instead). As a consequence, when
182a once-only alarm triggers, it may take 2 seconds for it to show, and 2
183more seconds for it to disappear.
184
185Monitoring of in9 isn't enabled at lower init levels (<3) because that
186channel measures the battery voltage (Vbat). It is a known fact that
187repeatedly sampling the battery voltage reduces its lifetime. National
188Semiconductor smartly designed their chipset so that in9 is sampled only
189once every 1024 sampling cycles (that is every 34 minutes at the default
190sampling rate), so the effect is attenuated, but still present.
191
192
193Limitations
194-----------
195
196The datasheets suggests that some values (fan mins, fan dividers)
197shouldn't be changed once the monitoring has started, but we ignore that
198recommendation. We'll reconsider if it actually causes trouble.
199