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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro index 702f5ac68c09..9363b8bd6109 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro @@ -4,17 +4,18 @@ Supported adapters: * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website - * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B + * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237 Datasheet: available on request from Via Authors: - Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>, - Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, - Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>, - Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> + Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>, + Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, + Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>, + Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>, + Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Module Parameters ----------------- @@ -28,20 +29,22 @@ Description ----------- i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the -supported VIA southbridges. +supported VIA south bridges. Your lspci -n listing must show one of these : - device 1106:3050 (VT82C596 function 3) - device 1106:3051 (VT82C596 function 3) + device 1106:3050 (VT82C596A function 3) + device 1106:3051 (VT82C596B function 3) device 1106:3057 (VT82C686 function 4) device 1106:3074 (VT8233) device 1106:3147 (VT8233A) - device 1106:8235 (VT8231) - devide 1106:3177 (VT8235) - devide 1106:3227 (VT8237) + device 1106:8235 (VT8231 function 4) + device 1106:3177 (VT8235) + device 1106:3227 (VT8237R) If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB. - +Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably +VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions +are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs. |