[PATCH linux dev-4.7 0/4] SuperIO and Host Interface Controllers

[Xo Wang]

Hi folks,

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This series adds some sysfs drivers exposing parts of the LPC controller. The
> patches are pretty bare-bones in that they provide zero sanity checking and
> leave decisions entirely to userspace. They're also slightly tedious, so I
> expect (hope) their current form will be short-lived.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Jeffery (4):
>   misc: Expose Aspeed SuperIO scratch registers (SCRxSIO)
>   misc: Add partial Aspeed LPC Host Interface Control (HIC) driver
>   arm: aspeed: dt: Add SuperIO scratch register nodes
>   arm: aspeed: dt: Add LPC Host Interface Controller nodes
>
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g4.dtsi |  10 ++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi |  10 ++
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig             |  14 +++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile            |   2 +
>  drivers/misc/aspeed-hic.c        | 198 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/misc/aspeed-scrsio.c     | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 375 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/aspeed-hic.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/aspeed-scrsio.c
>
> --
> 2.9.3
>
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I noticed that this driver wasn't merged. Was there a change of plan
to how LPC controller functionality should be exported?

This is still useful for us to set up memboot and to listen for port
80 post codes.

cheers
xo