diff --git a/doc/chips/icspll b/doc/chips/icspll new file mode 100644 index 00000000..095f5208 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/chips/icspll @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +This is a clock chip reader. + +*** ALPHA - It may hang your SMBus or crash your entire system. *** + +It is not clear if it will work at all due to incompatibilities +between the way block reads work on the SMBus and the I2C bus. +(These are systems with a piix4 or an ali15x3 chip). + +However because of a lack of block read support in the I2C package, +it won't work with native I2C systems either. + +If you try this, please report your clock chip, your SMBus chip +(piix4 or ali15x3), and the results of +'cat /proc/sys/dev/sensors/icspll-i2c-*-69/reg0-6' to +lm78@stimpy.netroedge.com. + +-------------------- + +Supports Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) +and PhaseLink Labs (PLL) I2C clock generators +at address 0x69. + + Supported chips (preliminary): + ICS: + 9148-02, 9148B-04, 9148-08, 9150-01, 9150-04, 9150-11 + PLL: + 52C64-05, 52C64-25, 52C65-02, 52C66-01, 52C66-03, 52C66-10, + 52C66-11, 52C66-28, 52C66-29, 52C66-31, 52C66-38, 52C66-39, + 52C68-02, 52C68-04, 52C69-13, 52C69-15 + + +These chips have 7 registers. +They will appear as 7 values when you cat +/proc/sys/dev/sensors/icspll-i2c-*-69/reg0-6.