On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 17:23, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At some point, we have to face it: ASUS doesn't support Linux, and they > make it hard to access chips like this. I think the chip should be > accessed through "official" channels only if provided (ie WMI/ACPI), > or not at all. My two cents, if you please. Unfortunately, ASUS doesn't support Windows as well, they only support their own shitty software, and they change the WMI methods (both names and logic). For example, just recently they packed a full hardware monitoring solution in X470 boards in WMI, then removed it in X570 and changed hardware access function names. In order to add support for their next WMI implementation, one needs to thoroughly read the decompiled DSDT code, find functions, learn their logic and test. This is hard to do remotely, without the hardware, obviously. On the other hand it is much easier to find the required mutex name from the DSDT code and access the chip normally. Best regards, Eugene
