Re: Tyan Tiger MP AMD760 chipset support

[Steven Walter]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Willem Riede wrote:
> with reference to AMD760 (IDE?) support on a Tyan K7 Thunder,
> I was somewhat surprised to find the chipset:
> 
>  	AMD-762 North bridge & AMD-766 South bridge
> 	Winbond W83627HF Super I/O ASIC
>  	Winbond W83782D hardware monitoring ASIC
> 
> only partly recognized by my 2.4.9ac18 based kernel. 
> One problem is that the temperature sensors are not detected 
> (I'm reluctant to torture my system if I can't watch out for 
> it overheating).
> 
> Does anyone know the AMD760 support status? Any pointers
> for (experimental) patches?

Look into the lm_sensors patch; it supports many such hardware
monitoring chips, and I believe that yours is one of them.
-- 
-Steven
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