smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:38:31PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> If you look inside /usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon/work/xmbmon205 once
> the port is built (e.g. "make"), you'll find there are other utilities
> for attempting to find the slave address, such as "testsmb"
> 
> Be aware that these devices can contain more than one address on the
> bus.  Be aware that "probing" is risky business as well -- I've seen

Oops, accidentally deleted the lines after this.  :-)  Should have read:

I've seen testsmb as well as my own utilities (which perform only reads
across SMBus) result in some hardware lock-ups and watchdogs firing.
It's best to be as safe/accurate as possible (the software should be
told explicitly what chip you have).

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