Re: dmi_scan on x86_64

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 10:40:09 EST



> > Feel free to submit a dump (using i2cdump) of that unknown chip if you
> > want me to comment on it.
>
> egger@ulli:~$ sudo i2cdetect -l
> i2c-2 unknown SMBus2 AMD8111 adapter at c400
> (...)
> egger@ulli:~$ sudo i2cdetect 2
> (...)
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
> 00: XX XX XX XX XX 08 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 10: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 20: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 30: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 40: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 50: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 60: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 70: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX

According to the SMBus 2.0 specs [1], page 59, address 0x08 represents
the SMBus host itself, so it's not a client. This SMBus is empty.

> Anything else I can try?

No, this bus is simply empty, no need to look any further. For some
reason these AMD chipsets have two different SMBus. Most motherboard
manufacturers only use the first one.

Jean

[1] http://www.smbus.org/specs/smbus20.pdf
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