Hello everyone.
I have my hands on a piece of hardware here using the Super I/O device listed in the subject; that is:
Winbond LPC Super I/O WPCN381U
- My first question is, has anyone else encountered this device?
- SVN trunk of superiotool detects this device as:
Found NSC PC87382 (sid=0xf4, srid=0x04) at 0x2e
...and I know from the manufacturer that the device is actually the one mentioned previously. However, I know from the specsheet that the hardware is pin-compatible with the Winbond PC87381, which has a very similar name to the device it "thinks" it is.
http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/APC/WPCN381U_pba.p...
Does this mean that superiotool is actually detecting it properly?
- Finally, the device I want to use waits for input via the serial port, but before this can be initiated the device must be powered on via the Super I/O module. According to the manufacturer, I do this by activating the GPIO03 pin. I know superiotool is a read-only tool, given I know these pieces of data, is there an easy way to ping this particular bit?
- My first approach to enable this device was to write a small kernel module that would call gpio_request(3); however, this always returns -ENOSYS or -EINVAL. This clearly isn't the right approach. :)
I realize this is probably a question for LKML proper, but I figured I'd ask here first and see what the Fates have in store. :)