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| author | Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> | 2010-09-29 20:12:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> | 2011-03-14 22:36:25 -0700 |
| commit | 502b5a0199209001b34b623132ea313790acbd5d (patch) | |
| tree | 4babcea2beef914a84862596391ba20df586c814 /Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem | |
| parent | 4e9be650597bffec5885a8c1abad1e4ffb0bcca3 (diff) | |
hwmon: Add support for Lineage Compact Power Line PEM devices
This patch adds support for hardware monitoring of Lineage Compact Power Line
Power Entry Modules.
Reviewed-by: Tom Grennan <tom.grennan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem | 77 |
1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem b/Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2ba5ed126858 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lineage-pem @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Kernel driver lineage-pem +========================= + +Supported devices: + * Lineage Compact Power Line Power Entry Modules + Prefix: 'lineage-pem' + Addresses scanned: - + Documentation: + http://www.lineagepower.com/oem/pdf/CPLI2C.pdf + +Author: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> + + +Description +----------- + +This driver supports various Lineage Compact Power Line DC/DC and AC/DC +converters such as CP1800, CP2000AC, CP2000DC, CP2100DC, and others. + +Lineage CPL power entry modules are nominally PMBus compliant. However, most +standard PMBus commands are not supported. Specifically, all hardware monitoring +and status reporting commands are non-standard. For this reason, a standard +PMBus driver can not be used. + + +Usage Notes +----------- + +This driver does not probe for Lineage CPL devices, since there is no register +which can be safely used to identify the chip. You will have to instantiate +the devices explicitly. + +Example: the following will load the driver for a Lineage PEM at address 0x40 +on I2C bus #1: +$ modprobe lineage-pem +$ echo lineage-pem 0x40 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +All Lineage CPL power entry modules have a built-in I2C bus master selector +(PCA9541). To ensure device access, this driver should only be used as client +driver to the pca9541 I2C master selector driver. + + +Sysfs entries +------------- + +All Lineage CPL devices report output voltage and device temperature as well as +alarms for output voltage, temperature, input voltage, input current, input power, +and fan status. + +Input voltage, input current, input power, and fan speed measurement is only +supported on newer devices. The driver detects if those attributes are supported, +and only creates respective sysfs entries if they are. + +in1_input Output voltage (mV) +in1_min_alarm Output undervoltage alarm +in1_max_alarm Output overvoltage alarm +in1_crit Output voltage critical alarm + +in2_input Input voltage (mV, optional) +in2_alarm Input voltage alarm + +curr1_input Input current (mA, optional) +curr1_alarm Input overcurrent alarm + +power1_input Input power (uW, optional) +power1_alarm Input power alarm + +fan1_input Fan 1 speed (rpm, optional) +fan2_input Fan 2 speed (rpm, optional) +fan3_input Fan 3 speed (rpm, optional) + +temp1_input +temp1_max +temp1_crit +temp1_alarm +temp1_crit_alarm +temp1_fault |