Re: [lm-sensors] 3.10: NCT6776F sensor question with SupermicroX9SRL-F motherboard

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 09:57:18 EST


Thanks for these details!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Guenter, Justin,
>
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 07:42:01 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:35:59AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> > I also found:
>> > http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations/SuperMicro/X9SRA
>> >
>> > Does Super Micro also have such a config file for the X9SRL-F?
>> > This board uses a NCT6776F.
>>
>> Supermicro does not provide configuration files. You can take the above file,
>> test and update it, and let us know so we can add it to the wiki.
>
> Actually they do provide configuration information. They have their own
> tool names SuperDoctor, which can be downloaded from:
> ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/SuperDoctor_II/Linux/Release/
>
> If you look at file AllSuperD.ini, you'll find per-board entries
> describing the input mapping. It is very helpful when writing a custom
> libsensors configuration file for the board in question. It takes some
> knowledge of the monitoring chip or its driver though, as the ini file
> references register addresses ("Offset" in the file.)
>
> A gave a quick look and at least the voltage input mapping (and
> presumably the voltage scaling factors as well) is similar to the
> X9SRA so you can reuse this part of the X9SRA configuration file.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
> Jean Delvare
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