On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us> wrote:
>>> I understand, but are there any workarounds to getting this chip working
>>> until an ACPI driver is available?
>>
>> In your case I think that the monitoring chip is used for ACPI thermal
>> zone:
>>
>>>>> [root@XX ~]# sensors
>>>>> acpitz-virtual-0
>>>>> Adapter: Virtual device
>>>>> temp1:       +36.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)
>>
>> So that's the ACPI driver...
>> If you send me a copy of the DSDT I'll see if there's something
>> interesting.
[...]
> I grabbed the file from "/proc/acpi" and packed in a ZIP with no
> compression. Hopefully it will be useful for you.

Nothing interesting, only the TZ interface.
I'm attaching a heavily modified version of the driver that uses the
low level ACPI access to the chip.
It's only compile tested (I don't have the hardware), and it might
crash the machine at runtime, so save your data before trying it :-)

Luca