RFC:new superio proposal

[Bari Ari]

ron minnich wrote:

>On Tue, 13 May 2003, Bari Ari wrote:
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>>The new super i/o structure of freebios2 should also account for these 
>>changes.
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>any suggestions on how this should look? I can see a 
>src/superio/<vendor>/microprocessor, to which you pass all these 
>parameters, and which talks to the microprocessor to set them up. Would 
>that be sufficient? What new parameters would it need?
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Besides just setting a few bits in registers to config the super i/o, 
one now has the option/ability to reload the binary firmware into the 
flash memory of the super i/o to customize the board. The binary may be 
64KB for some cpu based super i/o's.

Some examples of cpu based super i/o's

http://www.renesas.com/eng/products/mpumcu/16bit/h8s/2100/index.html

Bari