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, 32 byte buffer not supported)
9 * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported, 32 byte buffer not supported)
11 * Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6)
13 * Intel 631xESB/632xESB (ESB2)
16 Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website
19 Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
20 Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
21 Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
33 The ICH (properly known as the 82801AA), ICH0 (82801AB), ICH2 (82801BA),
34 ICH3 (82801CA/CAM) and later devices are Intel chips that are a part of
35 Intel's '810' chipset for Celeron-based PCs, '810E' chipset for
36 Pentium-based PCs, '815E' chipset, and others.
38 The ICH chips contain at least SEVEN separate PCI functions in TWO logical
39 PCI devices. An output of lspci will show something similar to the
42 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2418 (rev 01)
43 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2410 (rev 01)
44 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2411 (rev 01)
45 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2412 (rev 01)
46 00:1f.3 Unknown class [0c05]: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2413 (rev 01)
48 The SMBus controller is function 3 in device 1f. Class 0c05 is SMBus Serial
51 The ICH chips are quite similar to Intel's PIIX4 chip, at least in the
61 I2C Block Read Support
62 ----------------------
64 Not supported at the moment.
70 The 82801DB (ICH4) and later chips support several SMBus 2.0 features.
76 If your system has an Intel ICH south bridge, but you do NOT see the
77 SMBus device at 00:1f.3 in lspci, and you can't figure out any way in the
78 BIOS to enable it, it means it has been hidden by the BIOS code. Asus is
79 well known for first doing this on their P4B motherboard, and many other
80 boards after that. Some vendor machines are affected as well.
82 The first thing to try is the "i2c_ec" ACPI driver. It could be that the
83 SMBus was hidden on purpose because it'll be driven by ACPI. If the
84 i2c_ec driver works for you, just forget about the i2c-i801 driver and
85 don't try to unhide the ICH SMBus. Even if i2c_ec doesn't work, you
86 better make sure that the SMBus isn't used by the ACPI code. Try loading
87 the "fan" and "thermal" drivers, and check in /proc/acpi/fan and
88 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone. If you find anything there, it's likely that
89 the ACPI is accessing the SMBus and it's safer not to unhide it. Only
90 once you are certain that ACPI isn't using the SMBus, you can attempt
93 In order to unhide the SMBus, we need to change the value of a PCI
94 register before the kernel enumerates the PCI devices. This is done in
95 drivers/pci/quirks.c, where all affected boards must be listed (see
96 function asus_hides_smbus_hostbridge.) If the SMBus device is missing,
97 and you think there's something interesting on the SMBus (e.g. a
98 hardware monitoring chip), you need to add your board to the list.
100 The motherboard is identified using the subvendor and subdevice IDs of the
101 host bridge PCI device. Get yours with "lspci -n -v -s 00:00.0":
103 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
105 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
106 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
107 Capabilities: [e4] #09 [2106]
108 Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0
110 Here the host bridge ID is 2570 (82865G/PE/P), the subvendor ID is 1043
111 (Asus) and the subdevice ID is 80f2 (P4P800-X). You can find the symbolic
112 names for the bridge ID and the subvendor ID in include/linux/pci_ids.h,
113 and then add a case for your subdevice ID at the right place in
114 drivers/pci/quirks.c. Then please give it very good testing, to make sure
115 that the unhidden SMBus doesn't conflict with e.g. ACPI.
117 If it works, proves useful (i.e. there are usable chips on the SMBus)
118 and seems safe, please submit a patch for inclusion into the kernel.
120 Note: There's a useful script in lm_sensors 2.10.2 and later, named
121 unhide_ICH_SMBus (in prog/hotplug), which uses the fakephp driver to
122 temporarily unhide the SMBus without having to patch and recompile your
123 kernel. It's very convenient if you just want to check if there's
124 anything interesting on your hidden ICH SMBus.
127 **********************
128 The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Texas
129 Instruments in the initial development of this driver.
131 The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Intel in the
132 development of SMBus 2.0 / ICH4 features of this driver.