[SerialICE] Serial output on Winbond W83627HG

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:38:49 +0200, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2011/3/29 Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org>:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:03:21 -0400, Corey Osgood
<corey.osgood at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:51:23 -0600, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried different host frequencies until you don't see
garbage?
>>>>>  If you know the default value, you could try it first.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the ignorance but what do you mean by host frequencies?
>>> Baudrate?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joseph Smith
>>>> Set-Top-Linux
>>>> www.settoplinux.org
>>>
>>> Maybe this will help. Attached is my patch for the Zotac NM10, the
>>> NM10 is virtually identical to ICH7, and NCT5571D is very similar to
>>> Winbond ICs (Nuvoton is a branch of Winbond, the datasheet's title is
>>> actually "W83627DHG Data Sheet", someone apparently forgot to change
>>> it).
>>>
>> Thanks Corey,
>> I noticed you setup SIO PM Events on the southbridge and ACPI on
SuperIO.
>> Did you have to do that to get serial working? Besides that yours looks
>> pretty much the same as mine.
> 
> You aren't setting up SERIRQ_CNTL (and CNF[1,2]_LPC_EN,
> COM[A,B]_LPC_EN). Is that on purpose ?
> 
Just to clarify my setup does Coreys does not. It is not always needed, my
other ICH4 boards supported by serialice do not need any southbridge
registers setup (except to disable the watchdog timer). Works out of the
box so to speak.

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org