hwmon-vid: Ignore 6th VID pin of AMD family 0Fh processors
authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:18:11 +0000 (17:18 +0200)
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:18:11 +0000 (17:18 +0200)
commit5bed13f5809927be10facccb63add834b712df51
tree4fc42bd46e8e3630d61314f069adbbaa650f3549
parent2c2a6172afab7421f6af7e228cd3121f423ea932
hwmon-vid: Ignore 6th VID pin of AMD family 0Fh processors

We had a report about a mainboard for AMD family 0Fh processors not
routing the 6th VID pin from the CPU to the hardware monitoring chip.

While the vendor should have wired the pin (or, failing that, should
have hardwired it to level high rather than low), the fact is that
none of these processors are currently known to operate at the lower
voltage levels which require the 6th VID pin. So, as a practical
workaround, I propose to ignore the 6th VID pin for these CPUs.

If this decision ever causes problems, we'll reconsider.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Frank Myhr <fmyhr@fhmtech.com>
Tested-by: Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.c