Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] platform/chrome: add support for the Framework Laptop

From: Tzung-Bi Shih
Date: Wed Jan 26 2022 - 21:31:24 EST


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:00:18PM -0600, Dustin L. Howett wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the Framework Laptop to the cros_ec
> LPC driver.
>
> The Framework Laptop is a non-Chromebook laptop that uses the ChromeOS
> Embedded Controller. Since the machine was designed to present a more
> normal device profile, it does not report all 512 I/O ports that are
> typically used by cros_ec_lpcs. Because of this, changes to the driver's
> port reservation scheme were required.
>
> Since this EC driver probes the MEC range first, and uses only the MEC
> range if that probe succeeds[^1], we can get by without requesting the
> entire port range required by non-MEC embedded controllers until
> absolutely necessary.
>
> [^1]: this includes "memory mapped" read - where the traditional LPC EC
> requires I/O ports 0x900-0x9FF, the MEC EC multiplexes reads/writes
> over the same eight ports, 0x800-0x807.
>
> Changelog in v2:
> Cleaned up the commit subjects per request.
>
> Dustin L. Howett (2):
> platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpcs: detect the Framework Laptop
> platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpcs: reserve the MEC LPC I/O ports first

For the series,
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx>