From 2635e5b323ea8434a5237d752462485c0bec8c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:11:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a description of what the different eeprom decoding scripts do. git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/i2c-tools/trunk@4490 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- eeprom/README | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 eeprom/README diff --git a/eeprom/README b/eeprom/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..962ff46 --- /dev/null +++ b/eeprom/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +This directory contains scripts to decode the data exposed by the eeprom +Linux kernel driver. + +* decode-dimms.pl (perl script) + Decode the information found in memory module SPD EEPROMs. + +* decode-vaio.pl (perl script) + Decode the information found in Sony Vaio laptop identification EEPROMs. + +* ddcmon (perl script) + decode-edid.pl (perl script) + Decode the information found in monitor EEPROMs. Both scripts require + an access to the DDC channel of the monitor. This is typically provided + by framebuffer drivers. decode-edid.pl additionally requires parse-edid, + which is part of the read-edid package. ddcmon prints general + information, while decode-edid.pl prints timing information for + inclusion into your X11 configuration file. + +* decode-xeon.pl (perl script) + ID ROM data decoding for Xeon processors. Support for sysfs is still + missing, so this script doesn't work with 2.6 kernels yet.