Hello flashrom / coreboot / lm_sensors team
I'm not even completely sure if I am on the correct mailinglist for my question so please excuse if I asked in the wrong category.
Well, my question is quite generic. I have a laptop here which would in theory be very fine for Coreboot with a freedom OS. It's a HP 635. It's based mainly on AMD tech (E-350, A50M chipset or something close to that), Realtek (NIC, card reader) and Atheros (wireless) components. So kind of everything works. Well. Nearly. You know, there was some sort of chips, that never really cause me trouble in the past. They were there and would just always work: The Super IO chips. ITE, Fintek, Winbond, whatever. But now there is this
ITE IT8518E Super IO (correctly it's an EC)
which just won't seem to have a driver or documentation. HP wasn't really of help here as far as I reached anyone there. ITE was slow to respond and I don't how if I can just ask them "hey, it would be nice to have specs for writing a freedom driver for the Linux (BSD/whatever) kernel / lm_sensors and have it supported for flashrom / coreboot". Especially since I am no code hacker, I'm one of those strange users. ;)
Without support for that chip there likely won't be any flashrom and thus no coreboot, right? That would be sad since otherwise the box is very suitable and fairly well equipped for the price (also has a non glare screen).
I can provide you with a bunch of outputs from flashrom, superiotool, lm_sensors, lspci, lshw, dmidecode, acpidump and whatsnot if that is of help.
Greetings and have nice week Haldor