Superiotool

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ITE IT8705F
Winbond W83977EF

Superiotool is a GPL'd user-space helper tool for LinuxBIOS development purposes (but may also be useful for other things). It allows you to detect which Super I/O you have on your mainboard, and it can provide detailed information about the register contents of the Super I/O.

Supported devices

Vendor Super I/O Detection Register dump Human-readable dump BIOS dumps LinuxBIOS dumps
ASUS A8000 Yes Yes No 1
Fintek F71805 Yes Yes Yes
Fintek F71872 Yes No Yes
ITE IT8702F Yes No No
ITE IT8705F Yes No No
ITE IT8708F Yes Yes No 1
ITE IT8710F Yes No No
ITE IT8712F Yes Yes No
ITE IT8716F Yes Yes No
ITE IT8718F Yes Yes No 1
ITE IT8726F ? ? No
NSC1 PC8374 Yes No Yes
SMSC FDC37N769 Yes Yes No 1
SMSC FDC37B80x Yes No No
SMSC FDC37B78x Yes No No
SMSC FDC37B72x Yes No No
SMSC FDC37M81x Yes No No
SMSC FDC37M60x Yes No No
SMSC LPC47B27x Yes No No
SMSC LPC47M10x Yes No No
SMSC LPC47M15x Yes No No
SMSC LPC47S45x Yes No No
SMSC LPC47B397 Yes No No
SMSC DME1737 Yes Yes No
SMSC SCH5307 Yes No No
Winbond W83977CTF Yes No No
Winbond W83977EF/EG Yes No No
Winbond W83627SF Yes No No
Winbond W83697HF/F/HG Yes Yes No
Winbond W83L517D/D-F Yes No No
Winbond W83697UF/UG Yes No No
Winbond W83637HF Yes No No
Winbond W83627THF/THG Yes No No
Winbond W83627EHF/EF/EHG/EG Yes Yes No 1
Winbond W83627UHG Yes No No
Winbond W83977F-A/G-A/AF-A/AG-A Yes No No
Winbond W83977TF Yes No No
Winbond W83977ATF Yes No No
Winbond W83627HF/F/HG/G Yes No No
Winbond W83877F Yes No No
Winbond W83877TF Yes No No
Winbond W83877ATF Yes No No

1 Previosly National Semiconductor, now bought by Winbond.

Installation

$ svn co svn://linuxbios.org/repos/trunk/util/superiotool
$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

Probe/detect the Super I/O in your mainboard:

$ superiotool

Register dump as table of hex-values (if the Super I/O is detected):

$ superiotool -d

Detailed register dump in human-readable format:

$ superiotool -D

Please see the README for further information.

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