[coreboot] Dump GPIO I/O Registers

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>:

> I think you guys are going in circles :-)
>
> Here is my chance to help :-)
>
> For the last gazillion years the IO ports on the intel parts have been
> about the same. You could probably even reference an old PIIX document
> to see how they are programmed. (you'd be surprised how much all the
> new stuff looks like a PIIX ...)
>
> You could also take the basic code from superio probe and modify it to
> work on southbridge parts -- I looked at this, it looked doable, I ran
> out of time and need for it.
>
> And, yes, who knows why, but on all of the ICH parts (you pronounce
> this "ICK!") I know of the GPIO IOBASE is not a config space register.
> BLEAH!
>
> So you do something like this:
> 1. id the vendor/dev id (use libpci -- see flashrom for example)
> 2. From that, call a chip-specific function that returns the GPIO
> IOBASE set. Plan to make it an arbitrary sized array or a struct that
> has the info (use the code from flashrom)
> 3. With that data from (2), write chip-specific functions that display:
> - enable info
> - direction info
> - value of the gpio port info
> (Some of the code from the superio tool might be very useful here
> --it's all inx/outx bit mask/extract bits at this point, nothing
> special)
>
> Anyway, this is a bit more work, but ... if you do it, we'll have a
> tool we can extend the same way as the superiotool, and your
> grandchildren will thank you.
>
> btw, this type of tool is incredibly useful, as you doubtless know. We
> found the FLASH write enable on the K8N in about 10 minutes with
> superiotool, and it only took 10 mins as we had to write a little
> support code for the superio ... would have taken 30 seconds
> otherwise. I feel so safe now that I know how well the write line on
> FLASH is protected :-)
>
> ron
>
Thanks Ron, I know this tool would be incredibly useful too me right now:-)
I'll see what I can come up with, with everyones help of course:-)


Thanks - Joe