Kernel driver abituguru3

Supported chips:

  • Abit uGuru revision 3 (Hardware Monitor part, reading only)

    Prefix: ‘abituguru3’

    Addresses scanned: ISA 0x0E0

    Datasheet: Not available, this driver is based on reverse engineering.

    Note:

    The uGuru is a microcontroller with onboard firmware which programs it to behave as a hwmon IC. There are many different revisions of the firmware and thus effectively many different revisions of the uGuru. Below is an incomplete list with which revisions are used for which Motherboards:

    • uGuru 1.00 ~ 1.24 (AI7, KV8-MAX3, AN7)

    • uGuru 2.0.0.0 ~ 2.0.4.2 (KV8-PRO)

    • uGuru 2.1.0.0 ~ 2.1.2.8 (AS8, AV8, AA8, AG8, AA8XE, AX8)

    • uGuru 2.3.0.0 ~ 2.3.0.9 (AN8)

    • uGuru 3.0.0.0 ~ 3.0.x.x (AW8, AL8, AT8, NI8 SLI, AT8 32X, AN8 32X, AW9D-MAX)

    The abituguru3 driver is only for revision 3.0.x.x motherboards, this driver will not work on older motherboards. For older motherboards use the abituguru (without the 3 !) driver.

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Module Parameters

  • force: bool

    Force detection. Note this parameter only causes the detection to be skipped, and thus the insmod to succeed. If the uGuru can’t be read the actual hwmon driver will not load and thus no hwmon device will get registered.

  • verbose: bool

    Should the driver be verbose?

    • 0/off/false normal output

    • 1/on/true + verbose error reporting (default)

    Default: 1 (the driver is still in the testing phase)

Description

This driver supports the hardware monitoring features of the third revision of the Abit uGuru chip, found on recent Abit uGuru featuring motherboards.

The 3rd revision of the uGuru chip in reality is a Winbond W83L951G. Unfortunately this doesn’t help since the W83L951G is a generic microcontroller with a custom Abit application running on it.

Despite Abit not releasing any information regarding the uGuru revision 3, Louis Kruger has managed to reverse engineer the sensor part of the uGuru. Without his work this driver would not have been possible.

Known Issues

The voltage and frequency control parts of the Abit uGuru are not supported, neither is writing any of the sensor settings and writing / reading the fanspeed control registers (FanEQ)

If you encounter any problems please mail me <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> and include the output of: dmesg | grep abituguru