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Super I/O chips are ICs common to x86 that are used for interfacing
to low-bandwidth peripherals. They often contain serial ports, watchdog
timers and hardware monitoring units.
They are usually addressable via one of two I/O port pairs, either
0x2e-0x2f or 0x4e-0x4f, but they don't typically respond to reads from
their range unless a device-specific 'password' has been poked in.
After this is done, they are read and written in the same manner however.
On Linux, these devices aren't subject to any device/driver model.
Each driver for some function (e.g. watchdog or GPIO) duplicates the
device probe in the module_init and board-specific configuration
is handled via module parameters.
Lets do it a bit fancier in barebox and add a helper to register chips
and a regmap for the control and configuration registers as well as a
helper to register child devices for each function contained within the
Super I/O chip.
Board-specific configuration, e.g. which pin to use as a watchdog reset,
can then be realized using barebox device-specific parameters.
The regmap will be more of a debugging aid, however.
For ease of porting from Linux, it's expected that access to the
I/O ports won't happen via the regmap. For this reason, the new
<superio.h> header offers functions to read/write these chips' registers
as well.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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