Greetings,
That sounds interesting can you point me to a mainboard that uses one of
those?
G'day,
sjames
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Bari Ari wrote:
> Another change in super i/o resources is the use of a microprocessor
> rather than a hardwired super i/o chip. In laptops and mobile devices
> the current and future trend is to use a 16 bit cpu with I/O ports (PS2,
> serial, parallel, keyboard scan, GPIO, SMbus) that interfaces to the
> chipset using LPC bus. The 16 bit cpu has internal flash for the
> firmware that may be reprogrammed in circuit via the LPC and/or other
> ports. This cpu is used as a system power keyboard controller as well as
> super i/o.
>
> We have been working a bit on having open firmware for these as well.
>
> The new super i/o structure of freebios2 should also account for these
> changes.
>
> --Bari
>
>
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