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panq - IT8528 interactions

The panq (QNAP reversed) binary provides commands to interact with the ITE IT8528 Super I/O Controller on a QNAP TS-453Be NAS. Its main goals are to read the chassis temperature and to control the fan speed.
The lib/libuLinux_hal.so was first reversed with radare2, Ghidra, and QBDI, then the necessary functions were reimplemented.

Implemented Commands

The reimplemented functions from libuLinux_hal.so provides the following panq features:

$ panq
Usage: panq { COMMAND | help }

    Control the I8528 Super I/O controller on QNAP TS-453Be

Available commands:
  check                      - detect the Super I/O controller
  fan [ SPEED_PERCENTAGE ]   - get or set the fan speed
  help                       - this help message
  led { on | off | blink }   - configure the front USB LED
  log                        - display fan speed & temperature
  test [libuLinux_hal.so]    - test functions against libuLinux_hal.so                                                        
  temperature                - retrieve the temperature

Notes

  • the binary needs libcap-ng and libseccomp2 to be built.
  • to run panq as as regular user, use make capability
  • according to noise analysis from techpowerup, the fan will output 22 dBA at 10% speed, 34 dBA at 50% and 44 dBA at 100%

More Functionalities

The original libuLinux_hal.so library contains interesting ec_sys_* functions that seems to indicate that the following functionalities could be implemented in panq:

  • control more LEDs
  • enclosure opening detection
  • read more temperature sensors
  • automatic fan speed (ec_sys_set_tfan_auto(), ec_sys_set_qfan_auto()...)