Intel Software: Intel® SMBus Driver 2.0
v6.8.1.2
Release Notes



June 9, 2010

Microsoft* Windows* XP (Service Pack 2)

Microsoft* Windows* XP 64bit-Edition
Microsoft* Server 2003* (32Bit-Edition)
Microsoft* Server 2003* (64bit-Edition)
Microsoft* Vista* (32Bit-Edition)
Microsoft* Vista* (64bit-Edition)
Microsoft* 7* (32Bit-Edition)
Microsoft* 7* (64bit-Edition)


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Revision History


Date

Driver Revision

Build Number

Draft/Changes

June 9, 2010

6.8.1

2

Support CPT and use WDK 7.1 for compilation

Jan 20, 2010

6.7.0

3

Fixed MMIO implementation issue. Increase retries number for clearing bus from 1 to 99 on bus hang.

Force taking In-Use bit upon timeout. Dynamically support Hardware 32B buffer for Block read/write.

May 8, 2009

6.7.0

2

Fixed Win7 WHQL issues

March 18, 2009

6.7.0

1

Support PCH, added support for process call protocol and added Win7 installation support (tested only with Win 7 beta).

April 15, 2008

6.6.0

1

Support ICH10 Consumer and ICH10 Corporate, support Windows Server 2003 installation.

Sep 27, 2007

6.5.0

1

Support 631XESB/632XESB

Jan 9, 2007

6.4.0

1

Support ICH9, fixed ClearBus hang bug, support soft-reset for ICH8 and ICH9, WHQL certified.

August 30, 2006

6.3.0

2

Fixed SMBus Installer bug. No new features are added.

July 13, 2006

6.3.0

1

Support ICH8 Memory Mapped IO and Microsoft Vista 32bit-edition and Microsoft Vista 64bit-edition with digital signature enforcement turn off.

  

New Features 

Features Added

 

Reference No: 

Description

 Release Name

 

CPT and its derivatives support.

V6.8.1.2

Fixed MMIO implementation issue. Force taking In-Use bit upon timeout and increase retries number for clearing bus from 1 to 99 on bus hang. Dynamically support Hardware 32B buffer for Block read/write. Removed soft reset support for this release only.

V6.7.0.3

 

None

V6.7.0.2

 

PCH Support, support process call protocol, and Win7 installation support

V6.7.0.1

 

ICH10 Consumer and ICH10 Corporate Support
Windows Server 2003 Installation Support

V6.6.0.1

 

631XESB/632XESB support

V6.5.0.1

 

ICH9 support
Soft-reset for ICH8 and ICH9
WHQL Certified

V6.4.0.1

 

None.

V6.3.0.2

 

ICH8 Memory Mapped IO and Microsoft Vista 32bit-edition and Microsoft Vista 64bit-Edition with digital signature enforcement turns off.

V6.3.0.1

 

 

 

Known Issues 

Known Issues

 

Reference No: 

Description

 Affected OSs

 

-

-

 

 

 

Issues Resolved 

Issues Resolved

 

Reference No: 

Description

 Affected OSs

 

-

-

 

Components Contained in this Release

Components Contained

 

Component 

Filename

Version

Windows* XP/Server 2003/Vista/7 Driver

INTELSMB.SYS

6.8.1.2

Windows* XP/Server 2003/Vista/7 64bit-Edition

INTELSMB.SYS

6.8.1.2

Windows* XP/Server 2003/Vista/7 INF

INTELSMB.INF

6.8.1.2