Re: How to access a device on LPC bus?
From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 10/17/04
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:11:06 -0700 To: Thiemo Nordenholz <listmember@thiemo.net>
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 01:50:11PM +0200, Thiemo Nordenholz wrote:
> beginner's question, maybe: How do I, from a device driver point of view,
> access a device attached to the "Low Pincount" (LPC) bus?
Treat it as an ISA bus but write an ACPI attachment for it.
Look at src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc_acpi.c:fdc_acpi_probe() for an example.
> unknown pnpinfo _HID=WEC0518 _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.C046.C059.C140
There appears to be a Linux driver for this, which gives you something
to work from.
> Now, to implement an identify function in a driver for this, I need to
> access data in the controller - but I don't have any information about its
> memory attachments...
I'd suggest looking at that driver and accessing the registers you need to
identify the device sub-type in your attach function.
BMS
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