[ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer)

Alejandro Bonilla linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:14:54 -0500


Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:47:36PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>>>Yup, it's just doing port IO.  Get a kernel debugger for windows like
>>>>softice and this will be trivial to RE.
>>>>READ_PORT_USHORT / WRITE_PORT_UCHAR / READ_PORT_UCHAR
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>>>There are 3 ports involved.  The 0xed "non-existant delay port" and a pair
>>>of ports that are through the Super-I/O / IDE.  They are used in a
>>>index+value setup similar to reading/writing the AT keyboard
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>>>>controller.
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>>I think you got it... 2ports seem like enough for some kind of small
>>u-controller...
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>Quite possibly the ACPI EC. Most likely a side entrance into the onboard 8042.
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Vojtech,

    What is the onboads 8042?

.Alejandro