I looked into this a while ago, and it looked like there was support for the
IIC in the BORPH source, but I couldn't get it to compile because I didn't
know where the .h files I needed were or how to get the relevant memory
locations. If anyone figures this out, I'd be interested to know.
Glenn

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Henry Chen <[email protected]>wrote:

> There isn't anything done for this already in Linux, but the temperature
> sensors are read in the test suite when the code runs directly on the PPCs
> without the Linux layer. The monitors are on the I2C bus, for which there
> is
> a software IIC interface connected to the Linux PLB bus so you can probably
> twiddle the necessary memory space in software to get to the info that you
> want.
>
> --Henry
>
> Jason Manley wrote:
>
>> Henry's probably the right man to ask, but I think the temp sensors are on
>> an I2C bus. If the PPC has access to that bus, and there is a Linux driver
>> available, then you could use something like lm-sensors.
>>
>> I believe this will be the approach with ROACH.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On 10 Sep 2008, at 12:48, Andrew Siemion wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Billy,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure, I'm cc'ing Jason Manley and Henry Chen, who might know.
>>> If you aren't yet subscribed to the casper mailing list (
>>> [email protected]), you might want to do so.  That's a good
>>> place to direct questions like this..
>>>
>>> - Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/10/08 12:26 PM, "William Chauncey Barott" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Dan / Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> Is there code available for reading the BEE2 user FPGA temperature
>>>> sensors within the standard BORPH OS?
>>>> We're worried about MTBF of the fans and want a way to log & look for
>>>> indications of failure.  Would this be a software item, or something that
>>>> might be in gateware?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Billy
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>

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