4 * Intel 82801AA and 82801AB (ICH and ICH0 - part of the
5 '810' and '810E' chipsets)
6 * Intel 82801BA (ICH2 - part of the '815E' chipset)
7 * Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3)
8 * Intel 82801DB (ICH4) (HW PEC supported)
9 * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported)
11 * Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6)
13 * Intel 631xESB/632xESB (ESB2)
16 * Intel EP80579 (Tolapai)
17 * Intel 82801JI (ICH10)
19 Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website
22 Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
23 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
35 The ICH (properly known as the 82801AA), ICH0 (82801AB), ICH2 (82801BA),
36 ICH3 (82801CA/CAM) and later devices (PCH) are Intel chips that are a part of
37 Intel's '810' chipset for Celeron-based PCs, '810E' chipset for
38 Pentium-based PCs, '815E' chipset, and others.
40 The ICH chips contain at least SEVEN separate PCI functions in TWO logical
41 PCI devices. An output of lspci will show something similar to the
44 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2418 (rev 01)
45 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2410 (rev 01)
46 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2411 (rev 01)
47 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2412 (rev 01)
48 00:1f.3 Unknown class [0c05]: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2413 (rev 01)
50 The SMBus controller is function 3 in device 1f. Class 0c05 is SMBus Serial
53 The ICH chips are quite similar to Intel's PIIX4 chip, at least in the
63 I2C Block Read Support
64 ----------------------
66 I2C block read is supported on the 82801EB (ICH5) and later chips.
72 The 82801DB (ICH4) and later chips support several SMBus 2.0 features.
78 If your system has an Intel ICH south bridge, but you do NOT see the
79 SMBus device at 00:1f.3 in lspci, and you can't figure out any way in the
80 BIOS to enable it, it means it has been hidden by the BIOS code. Asus is
81 well known for first doing this on their P4B motherboard, and many other
82 boards after that. Some vendor machines are affected as well.
84 The first thing to try is the "i2c_ec" ACPI driver. It could be that the
85 SMBus was hidden on purpose because it'll be driven by ACPI. If the
86 i2c_ec driver works for you, just forget about the i2c-i801 driver and
87 don't try to unhide the ICH SMBus. Even if i2c_ec doesn't work, you
88 better make sure that the SMBus isn't used by the ACPI code. Try loading
89 the "fan" and "thermal" drivers, and check in /proc/acpi/fan and
90 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone. If you find anything there, it's likely that
91 the ACPI is accessing the SMBus and it's safer not to unhide it. Only
92 once you are certain that ACPI isn't using the SMBus, you can attempt
95 In order to unhide the SMBus, we need to change the value of a PCI
96 register before the kernel enumerates the PCI devices. This is done in
97 drivers/pci/quirks.c, where all affected boards must be listed (see
98 function asus_hides_smbus_hostbridge.) If the SMBus device is missing,
99 and you think there's something interesting on the SMBus (e.g. a
100 hardware monitoring chip), you need to add your board to the list.
102 The motherboard is identified using the subvendor and subdevice IDs of the
103 host bridge PCI device. Get yours with "lspci -n -v -s 00:00.0":
105 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
107 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
108 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
109 Capabilities: [e4] #09 [2106]
110 Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0
112 Here the host bridge ID is 2570 (82865G/PE/P), the subvendor ID is 1043
113 (Asus) and the subdevice ID is 80f2 (P4P800-X). You can find the symbolic
114 names for the bridge ID and the subvendor ID in include/linux/pci_ids.h,
115 and then add a case for your subdevice ID at the right place in
116 drivers/pci/quirks.c. Then please give it very good testing, to make sure
117 that the unhidden SMBus doesn't conflict with e.g. ACPI.
119 If it works, proves useful (i.e. there are usable chips on the SMBus)
120 and seems safe, please submit a patch for inclusion into the kernel.
122 Note: There's a useful script in lm_sensors 2.10.2 and later, named
123 unhide_ICH_SMBus (in prog/hotplug), which uses the fakephp driver to
124 temporarily unhide the SMBus without having to patch and recompile your
125 kernel. It's very convenient if you just want to check if there's
126 anything interesting on your hidden ICH SMBus.
129 **********************
130 The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Texas
131 Instruments in the initial development of this driver.
133 The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Intel in the
134 development of SMBus 2.0 / ICH4 features of this driver.