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It turns out that the adt7470's automatic fan control algorithm only works when the temperature sensors get updated. This in turn happens only when someone tells the chip to read its temperature sensors. Regrettably, this means that we have to drive the chip periodically. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kernel driver adt7470
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Supported chips:
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* Analog Devices ADT7470
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Prefix: 'adt7470'
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Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2C, 0x2E, 0x2F
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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
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be other chips that implement this interface.
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The ADT7470 uses the 2-wire interface compatible with the SMBus 2.0
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specification. Using an analog to digital converter it measures up to ten (10)
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external temperatures. It has four (4) 16-bit counters for measuring fan speed.
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There are four (4) PWM outputs that can be used to control fan speed.
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A sophisticated control system for the PWM outputs is designed into the ADT7470
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that allows fan speed to be adjusted automatically based on any of the ten
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temperature sensors. Each PWM output is individually adjustable and
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programmable. Once configured, the ADT7470 will adjust the PWM outputs in
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response to the measured temperatures with further host intervention. This
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feature can also be disabled for manual control of the PWM's.
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Each of the measured inputs (temperature, fan speed) has corresponding high/low
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limit values. The ADT7470 will signal an ALARM if any measured value exceeds
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either limit.
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The ADT7470 samples all inputs continuously. A kernel thread is started up for
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the purpose of periodically querying the temperature sensors, thus allowing the
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automatic fan pwm control to set the fan speed. The driver will not read the
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registers more often than once every 5 seconds. Further, configuration data is
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only read once per minute.
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Special Features
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The ADT7470 has a 8-bit ADC and is capable of measuring temperatures with 1
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degC resolution.
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The Analog Devices datasheet is very detailed and describes a procedure for
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determining an optimal configuration for the automatic PWM control.
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Configuration Notes
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-------------------
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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
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* pwm#_auto_point2_pwm and pwm#_auto_point2_temp -
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point1: Set the pwm speed at a lower temperature bound.
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point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound.
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The ADT7470 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when
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the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range
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from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the
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temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds
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pwm#_auto_point2_temp.
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Notes
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-----
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The temperature inputs no longer need to be read periodically from userspace in
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order for the automatic pwm algorithm to run. This was the case for earlier
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versions of the driver.
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