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Fork of AMDESE/linux with modifications for CachePC side-channel attack
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      2Kernel driver i2c-i801
      3======================
      4
      5
      6Supported adapters:
      7  * Intel 82801AA and 82801AB (ICH and ICH0 - part of the
      8    '810' and '810E' chipsets)
      9  * Intel 82801BA (ICH2 - part of the '815E' chipset)
     10  * Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3)
     11  * Intel 82801DB (ICH4) (HW PEC supported)
     12  * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported)
     13  * Intel 6300ESB
     14  * Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6)
     15  * Intel 82801G (ICH7)
     16  * Intel 631xESB/632xESB (ESB2)
     17  * Intel 82801H (ICH8)
     18  * Intel 82801I (ICH9)
     19  * Intel EP80579 (Tolapai)
     20  * Intel 82801JI (ICH10)
     21  * Intel 5/3400 Series (PCH)
     22  * Intel 6 Series (PCH)
     23  * Intel Patsburg (PCH)
     24  * Intel DH89xxCC (PCH)
     25  * Intel Panther Point (PCH)
     26  * Intel Lynx Point (PCH)
     27  * Intel Avoton (SOC)
     28  * Intel Wellsburg (PCH)
     29  * Intel Coleto Creek (PCH)
     30  * Intel Wildcat Point (PCH)
     31  * Intel BayTrail (SOC)
     32  * Intel Braswell (SOC)
     33  * Intel Sunrise Point (PCH)
     34  * Intel Kaby Lake (PCH)
     35  * Intel DNV (SOC)
     36  * Intel Broxton (SOC)
     37  * Intel Lewisburg (PCH)
     38  * Intel Gemini Lake (SOC)
     39  * Intel Cannon Lake (PCH)
     40  * Intel Cedar Fork (PCH)
     41  * Intel Ice Lake (PCH)
     42  * Intel Comet Lake (PCH)
     43  * Intel Elkhart Lake (PCH)
     44  * Intel Tiger Lake (PCH)
     45  * Intel Jasper Lake (SOC)
     46  * Intel Emmitsburg (PCH)
     47  * Intel Alder Lake (PCH)
     48  * Intel Raptor Lake (PCH)
     49
     50   Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website
     51
     52On Intel Patsburg and later chipsets, both the normal host SMBus controller
     53and the additional 'Integrated Device Function' controllers are supported.
     54
     55Authors:
     56	- Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
     57	- Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
     58
     59
     60Module Parameters
     61-----------------
     62
     63* disable_features (bit vector)
     64
     65Disable selected features normally supported by the device. This makes it
     66possible to work around possible driver or hardware bugs if the feature in
     67question doesn't work as intended for whatever reason. Bit values:
     68
     69 ====  =========================================
     70 0x01  disable SMBus PEC
     71 0x02  disable the block buffer
     72 0x08  disable the I2C block read functionality
     73 0x10  don't use interrupts
     74 0x20  disable SMBus Host Notify
     75 ====  =========================================
     76
     77
     78Description
     79-----------
     80
     81The ICH (properly known as the 82801AA), ICH0 (82801AB), ICH2 (82801BA),
     82ICH3 (82801CA/CAM) and later devices (PCH) are Intel chips that are a part of
     83Intel's '810' chipset for Celeron-based PCs, '810E' chipset for
     84Pentium-based PCs, '815E' chipset, and others.
     85
     86The ICH chips contain at least SEVEN separate PCI functions in TWO logical
     87PCI devices. An output of lspci will show something similar to the
     88following::
     89
     90  00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2418 (rev 01)
     91  00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2410 (rev 01)
     92  00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2411 (rev 01)
     93  00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2412 (rev 01)
     94  00:1f.3 Unknown class [0c05]: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2413 (rev 01)
     95
     96The SMBus controller is function 3 in device 1f. Class 0c05 is SMBus Serial
     97Controller.
     98
     99The ICH chips are quite similar to Intel's PIIX4 chip, at least in the
    100SMBus controller.
    101
    102
    103Process Call Support
    104--------------------
    105
    106Block process call is supported on the 82801EB (ICH5) and later chips.
    107
    108
    109I2C Block Read Support
    110----------------------
    111
    112I2C block read is supported on the 82801EB (ICH5) and later chips.
    113
    114
    115SMBus 2.0 Support
    116-----------------
    117
    118The 82801DB (ICH4) and later chips support several SMBus 2.0 features.
    119
    120
    121Interrupt Support
    122-----------------
    123
    124PCI interrupt support is supported on the 82801EB (ICH5) and later chips.
    125
    126
    127Hidden ICH SMBus
    128----------------
    129
    130If your system has an Intel ICH south bridge, but you do NOT see the
    131SMBus device at 00:1f.3 in lspci, and you can't figure out any way in the
    132BIOS to enable it, it means it has been hidden by the BIOS code. Asus is
    133well known for first doing this on their P4B motherboard, and many other
    134boards after that. Some vendor machines are affected as well.
    135
    136The first thing to try is the "i2c-scmi" ACPI driver. It could be that the
    137SMBus was hidden on purpose because it'll be driven by ACPI. If the
    138i2c-scmi driver works for you, just forget about the i2c-i801 driver and
    139don't try to unhide the ICH SMBus. Even if i2c-scmi doesn't work, you
    140better make sure that the SMBus isn't used by the ACPI code. Try loading
    141the "fan" and "thermal" drivers, and check in /sys/class/thermal. If you
    142find a thermal zone with type "acpitz", it's likely that the ACPI is
    143accessing the SMBus and it's safer not to unhide it. Only once you are
    144certain that ACPI isn't using the SMBus, you can attempt to unhide it.
    145
    146In order to unhide the SMBus, we need to change the value of a PCI
    147register before the kernel enumerates the PCI devices. This is done in
    148drivers/pci/quirks.c, where all affected boards must be listed (see
    149function asus_hides_smbus_hostbridge.) If the SMBus device is missing,
    150and you think there's something interesting on the SMBus (e.g. a
    151hardware monitoring chip), you need to add your board to the list.
    152
    153The motherboard is identified using the subvendor and subdevice IDs of the
    154host bridge PCI device. Get yours with ``lspci -n -v -s 00:00.0``::
    155
    156  00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
    157          Subsystem: 1043:80f2
    158          Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    159          Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
    160          Capabilities: [e4] #09 [2106]
    161          Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0
    162
    163Here the host bridge ID is 2570 (82865G/PE/P), the subvendor ID is 1043
    164(Asus) and the subdevice ID is 80f2 (P4P800-X). You can find the symbolic
    165names for the bridge ID and the subvendor ID in include/linux/pci_ids.h,
    166and then add a case for your subdevice ID at the right place in
    167drivers/pci/quirks.c. Then please give it very good testing, to make sure
    168that the unhidden SMBus doesn't conflict with e.g. ACPI.
    169
    170If it works, proves useful (i.e. there are usable chips on the SMBus)
    171and seems safe, please submit a patch for inclusion into the kernel.
    172
    173Note: There's a useful script in lm_sensors 2.10.2 and later, named
    174unhide_ICH_SMBus (in prog/hotplug), which uses the fakephp driver to
    175temporarily unhide the SMBus without having to patch and recompile your
    176kernel. It's very convenient if you just want to check if there's
    177anything interesting on your hidden ICH SMBus.
    178
    179
    180----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    181
    182The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Texas
    183Instruments in the initial development of this driver.
    184
    185The lm_sensors project gratefully acknowledges the support of Intel in the
    186development of SMBus 2.0 / ICH4 features of this driver.