Tigerlake communication controller driver

Hello Everyone.

I need assistance finding a driver or configuring it for tigerlake communication controller.
as shown in the link:

https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=ca0fbaa451

Can anyone point me in the direction i need to go? Much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.61-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts
    root=UUID=56b6d61d-6361-4ad3-a60e-43737d514e39 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    loglevel=3
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 5.4.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: Mutter vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: Sword 15 A11UD v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-1582 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: E1582IMS.312 date: 04/08/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 47.6 Wh (90.5%) condition: 52.6/52.0 Wh (101.2%)
    volts: 12.6 min: 11.4 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x40
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB
    L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2113 high: 3861 min/max: 800/4600 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 2377 2: 2016 3: 1672
    4: 3001 5: 3861 6: 1556 7: 2394 8: 1632 9: 1665 10: 2087 11: 1386
    12: 1980 13: 2883 14: 1533 15: 2157 16: 1614 bogomips: 73728
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB
    filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21
    ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 515.65.01 alternate: nouveau
    non-free: 515.xx+ status: current (as of 2022-07) arch: Ampere
    code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:25a0 class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Acer HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-10:4
    chip-ID: 5986:211b class-ID: 0e02
  Device-4: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-8.2:5 chip-ID: 046d:082d
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.00x11.26")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.55")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary,left model: LG (GoldStar)
    FULL HD serial: <filter> built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 75 dpi: 102
    gamma: 1.2 size: 480x270mm (18.9x10.63") diag: 551mm (21.7") ratio: 16:9
    modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: right model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1521 built: 2020
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
    diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.6
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 3-8.2:5
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 046d:082d class-ID: 0102 chip-ID: 8086:43c8
    serial: <filter> class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.61-1-lts running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.76 TiB used: 390.21 GiB (13.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: SNVS1000G
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: S8I40100
    temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Seagate
    model: Expansion Desk size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 4096 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0737 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Generic model: SD MMC
    size: 29.72 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.42 GiB
    (2.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 608 KiB
    (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.42
    GiB (2.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.42
    GiB (2.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%) used: 25.42
    GiB (2.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.04 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 413 Uptime: 8h 20m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.05 GiB used: 4.08 GiB
  (13.2%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 Packages: pacman: 1504 lib: 444 Shell: fish v: 3.5.1
  default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.20
Garuda (2.6.6-1):
  System install date:     2022-08-17
  Last full system update: 2022-08-19 ↻
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       NetworkManager
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Snapshots:               Snapper
  Failed units:            


What are you trying to do with the MEI controller?

The driver module is already available as a module,

$ zgrep INTEL_MEI /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI=y
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME=y
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_TXE=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_GSC=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_HDCP=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_PXP=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_WDT=m
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so, im not sure if getting this working is going to solve anything but i've been trying to get another monitor working on my laptop via USB3 or USB-C and it hasnt been working so i thought i'd just try to get everything that driver probe said wasnt working to working and see if it helps.

╭─bojangles@bojangles in ~ took 7ms
 ╰─λ zgrep INTEL_MEI /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_TXE=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_HDCP=m
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_WDT=m

thats what i got when i ran that. are the first two supposed to be

CONFIG_INTEL_MEI=y CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME=y

and if they are how do i go about doing that?

No, they’re available as modules for your specific kernel. You can load it with modprobe.

Again, it would be useful to know what you’re trying to do so the correct advice can be given.

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