| Kernel driver adt7470 |
| ===================== |
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| Supported chips: |
| * Analog Devices ADT7470 |
| Prefix: 'adt7470' |
| Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2C, 0x2E, 0x2F |
| Datasheet: Publicly available at the Analog Devices website |
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| Author: Darrick J. Wong |
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| Description |
| ----------- |
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| This driver implements support for the Analog Devices ADT7470 chip. There may |
| be other chips that implement this interface. |
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| The ADT7470 uses the 2-wire interface compatible with the SMBus 2.0 |
| specification. Using an analog to digital converter it measures up to ten (10) |
| external temperatures. It has four (4) 16-bit counters for measuring fan speed. |
| There are four (4) PWM outputs that can be used to control fan speed. |
| |
| A sophisticated control system for the PWM outputs is designed into the ADT7470 |
| that allows fan speed to be adjusted automatically based on any of the ten |
| temperature sensors. Each PWM output is individually adjustable and |
| programmable. Once configured, the ADT7470 will adjust the PWM outputs in |
| response to the measured temperatures with further host intervention. This |
| feature can also be disabled for manual control of the PWM's. |
| |
| Each of the measured inputs (temperature, fan speed) has corresponding high/low |
| limit values. The ADT7470 will signal an ALARM if any measured value exceeds |
| either limit. |
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| The ADT7470 DOES NOT sample all inputs continuously. A single pin on the |
| ADT7470 is connected to a multitude of thermal diodes, but the chip must be |
| instructed explicitly to read the multitude of diodes. If you want to use |
| automatic fan control mode, you must manually read any of the temperature |
| sensors or the fan control algorithm will not run. The chip WILL NOT DO THIS |
| AUTOMATICALLY; this must be done from userspace. This may be a bug in the chip |
| design, given that many other AD chips take care of this. The driver will not |
| read the registers more often than once every 5 seconds. Further, |
| configuration data is only read once per minute. |
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| Special Features |
| ---------------- |
| |
| The ADT7470 has a 8-bit ADC and is capable of measuring temperatures with 1 |
| degC resolution. |
| |
| The Analog Devices datasheet is very detailed and describes a procedure for |
| determining an optimal configuration for the automatic PWM control. |
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| Configuration Notes |
| ------------------- |
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| Besides standard interfaces driver adds the following: |
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| * PWM Control |
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| * pwm#_auto_point1_pwm and pwm#_auto_point1_temp and |
| * pwm#_auto_point2_pwm and pwm#_auto_point2_temp - |
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| point1: Set the pwm speed at a lower temperature bound. |
| point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound. |
| |
| The ADT7470 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when |
| the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range |
| from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the |
| temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds |
| pwm#_auto_point2_temp. |
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| Notes |
| ----- |
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| As stated above, the temperature inputs must be read periodically from |
| userspace in order for the automatic pwm algorithm to run. |
