Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro

   1 Kernel driver i2c-viapro
   2
   3 Supported adapters:
   4   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
   5     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
   6
   7   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
   8     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
   9
  10   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237
  11     Datasheet: available on request from Via
  12
  13 Authors:
  14         Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
  15         Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
  16         Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
  17         Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
  18
  19 Module Parameters
  20 -----------------
  21
  22 * force: int
  23   Forcibly enable the SMBus controller. DANGEROUS!
  24 * force_addr: int
  25   Forcibly enable the SMBus at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
  26
  27 Description
  28 -----------
  29
  30 i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
  31 supported VIA southbridges.
  32
  33 Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
  34
  35  device 1106:3050   (VT82C596 function 3)
  36  device 1106:3051   (VT82C596 function 3)
  37  device 1106:3057   (VT82C686 function 4)
  38  device 1106:3074   (VT8233)
  39  device 1106:3147   (VT8233A)
  40  device 1106:8235   (VT8231)
  41  devide 1106:3177   (VT8235)
  42  devide 1106:3227   (VT8237)
  43
  44 If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
  45 enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
  46
  47