1 # HP Laptops with KBC1126 Embedded Controller
3 This document is about HP EliteBook series laptops up to Ivy Bridge era
4 which use SMSC KBC1126 as embedded controller.
6 SMSC KBC1126 (and older similar chips like KBC1098) has been used in
7 HP EliteBooks for many generations. BIOS and EC firmware share an SPI
8 flash chip in these laptops, so we need to put firmware blobs for the
9 EC to the coreboot image.
11 ## EC firmware extraction and coreboot building
13 The following document takes EliteBook 2760p as an example.
15 First, you need to extract the blobs needed by EC firmware using util/kbc1126.
16 You can extract them from your backup firmware image, or firmware update
17 provided by HP with [unar] as follows:
20 wget https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp79501-80000/sp79710.exe
22 ${COREBOOT_DIR}/util/kbc1126/kbc1126_ec_dump sp79710/Rompaq/68SOU.BIN
23 mv 68SOU.BIN.fw1 ${COREBOOT_DIR}/2760p-fw1.bin
24 mv 68SOU.BIN.fw2 ${COREBOOT_DIR}/2760p-fw2.bin
27 When you config coreboot, select:
31 [*] Add firmware images for KBC1126 EC
32 (2760p-fw1.bin) KBC1126 firmware #1 path and filename
33 (2760p-fw2.bin) KBC1126 filename #2 path and filename
36 ## Porting guide for HP laptops with KBC1126
38 To port coreboot to an HP laptop with KBC1126, you need to do the
41 - select Kconfig option `EC_HP_KBC1126`
42 - select Kconfig option `SUPERIO_SMSC_LPC47N217` if there is LPC47n217
43 Super I/O, usually in EliteBook 8000 series, which can be used for
44 debugging via serial port
45 - initialize EC and Super I/O in romstage
46 - add EC and Super I/O support to devicetree.cb
48 To get the related values for EC in devicetree.cb, you need to extract the EFI
49 module EcThermalInit from the vendor UEFI firmware with [UEFITool]. Usually,
50 `ec_data_port`, `ec_cmd_port` and `ec_ctrl_reg` has the following values:
52 - For EliteBook xx60 series: 0x60, 0x64, 0xca
53 - For EliteBook xx70 series: 0x62, 0x66, 0x81
55 You can use [radare2] and the following [r2pipe] Python script to find
56 these values from the EcThermalInit EFI module:
61 # install radare2 and use `pip3 install --user r2pipe` to install r2pipe
67 fn = "ecthermalinit.efi"
73 entryf = r2.cmdj("pdfj")
75 for insn in entryf["ops"]:
76 if "lea r8" in insn["opcode"]:
77 _callback = insn["ptr"]
80 r2.cmd("af @ {}".format(_callback))
81 callbackf_insns = r2.cmdj("pdfj @ {}".format(_callback))["ops"]
84 ops = r2.cmdj("pdfj @ {}".format(addr))["ops"]
86 if "lea r8d" in insn["opcode"]:
89 ctrl_reg_found = False
91 for i in range(0, len(callbackf_insns)):
92 if not ctrl_reg_found and "mov cl" in callbackf_insns[i]["opcode"]:
94 ctrl_reg = callbackf_insns[i]["ptr"]
95 print("ec_ctrl_reg = 0x%02x" % ctrl_reg)
96 cmd_port = find_port(callbackf_insns[i+1]["jump"])
97 data_port = find_port(callbackf_insns[i+3]["jump"])
98 print("ec_cmd_port = 0x%02x\nec_data_port = 0x%02x" % (cmd_port, data_port))
100 if "mov bl" in callbackf_insns[i]["opcode"]:
101 ctrl_value = callbackf_insns[i]["ptr"]
102 print("ec_fan_ctrl_value = 0x%02x" % ctrl_value)
106 [unar]: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line
107 [UEFITool]: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool
108 [radare2]: https://radare.org/
109 [r2pipe]: https://github.com/radare/radare2-r2pipe