Authors and Contributors

The project would never have reached the current state without the support of many knowledgable programmers. Thanks to everyone who helped us so far!

Active Contributors

 Jean Delvare

Author of several hardware monitoring chip drivers. General support and development. Ported or helped porting many chip drivers to Linux 2.6. Maintainer of the i2c subsystem in Linux 2.4 (since 2.4.23) and 2.6 (since 2.6.11). Maintainer of the hwmon subsystem in Linux 2.6 (since 2.6.14).

Rudolf Marek

Helps with support.

Mark M. Hoffman

Author of several hardware monitoring chip and i2c bus drivers. Helps with support and development.

Axel Thimm

Fedora packager, forwards bug fixes and improvements.

Aurlien Jarno

Debian packager, forwards bug fixes and improvements. Ported several i2c chip drivers to Linux 2.6.

Philip Edelbrock

Provided the old web area and support system for years, as well as much of the PIIX4 SMBus code and an assortment of device drivers and other code. Still responsible for releases.

There is much more work to do than we are able to achieve. We welcome new contributors!

Past Contributors

Alexander Larsson

Laid down most of the foundation of what this project was made from, and has offered much advice and experience to the project.

Frodo Looijaard

Designed and wrote the core of lm_sensors version 2, as well as several drivers, the library and some user-space programs. Once, he thought the lm78 module would just require a quick hack...

William Morgan

Additional input and feedback. Has also been providing his programming skills to add features like interrupt support and general code organizational improvements. Introduced and maintained the CVS repository in the beginning.

Kyösti Mälkki

A very active contributor. Started the conversion to Linux 2.5.

Simon Vogl

Wrote the new i2c subsystem, thanks to which lm_sensors version 2 was possible.

Gerd Knorr

Designed the i2c structs, which made it possible to use the smbus-is-just-an-i2c-extension approach.

Mark D. Studebaker

Author of some drivers such as the i2c-ali15x3 driver. General code development and design.

Philip Pokorny

Author of the LM85 and ADM1026 drivers. Helped with support and development.

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Pushed the i2c bus drivers and the first hardware monitoring drivers into mainline (during the Linux 2.5 development cycle). Former maintainer of the i2c subsystem (which included hardware monitoring at that time) from Linux 2.5.70 to 2.6.11.

And many, many other developers who have provided suggestions, testing, patches. Thanks!

Corporate Help

The following companies helped us with assistance and/or donated hardware and other valuable resources:

Analog Devices

Maker of many high quality I2C hardware monitoring devices. Provided evaluation boards.

Atipa

Donated a motherboard.

 ASUSTeK Computers (ASUS)

Donated a motherboard for testing. Help with server systems support.

Aweta

Donated a complete system.

Barracuda Networks

Donated a motherboard with CPU and memory for driver development.

Cendio Systems

Donated a motherboard.

Edge Design

Web site space and some bandwidth from 1999 to 2006.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Donated a complete system.

Genesys Logic

Formerly makers of hardware health chips.

HP

Donated a complete system.

In-Store Broadcasting Network

Sponsored support for the SMSC LPC47B397-NC sensor chip.

Intel

The SMBus hardware and specification people.

Linear Technology

Maker of various simple I2C devices. Provided datasheets, samples, and some basic assistance.

National Semiconductor

Maker of the original hardware health monitoring chipsets, the LM78 and LM75, from which this project was started.

Philips

The I2C hardware and specification people.

SiS

Chipset maker, donated a motherboard.

Tekelec

Sponsored support for the LM93 sensor chip.

Texas Instruments

Formerly maker of some hardware health sensors. Provided some great technical assistance, samples, datasheets and even some computer hardware.

Tyan

Motherboard maker, contributed configuration files for their hardware.

 Winbond

Provided PDF datasheets for most of their chips. Contributed the w83792d driver. Actively supporting drivers for their chips and contributing bugfixes thereto. Contributed the CPU and memory for a W83792D test system.

And other helpful contacts at various companies providing technical insight, documentation, and hardware. Our project can't support chips properly if manufacturers don't help us!