Lirc support for Asus P4-P5N9300 ITE CIR chip

[Mikko V. <mik...@ik...>]

Hi,

I'm thinking of purchasing the P4-P5N9300 barebone PC from Asus. The
official specs state it has a "CIR" IR receiver, but nothing further.
Asus helpdesk/support was of no use. Looking at the Windows Vista CIR
driver .inf file I can see all kinds of references to an ITE87XX (and
ITE8305) CIR chip. Here are just some snippets:

;    INF file for installing the ITE CIR device
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 ACPI\ITE8704
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"all kinds of references to ACPI\ITE87XX"
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;IT8305 CHIP
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SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE= 0x00000002
MSFT = "ITE Tech.Inc."
StdMfg = "ITE Tech.Inc."
DiskId1 = "ITECIR Installation Disk #1"
itecir.DeviceDesc = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver"
itecir.DeviceDesc.EC.PMC = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (EC PMC)"
itecir.DeviceDesc.EC.RTC = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (EC RTC)"
itecir.DeviceDesc.EC = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (EC)"
itecir.DeviceDesc.CHIP = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (CHIP)"
itecir.DeviceDesc.EC2 = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (EC2)"
itecir.DeviceDesc.SIO2 = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver (SIO2)"
itecir.SVCDESC = "ITECIR Infrared Receiver"

etc.

Any idea if it will work with LIRC or if a driver can be written?

.m