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> Why is the access to Control register needed?

To execute soft reset for example.

> > In the perfect case i would like to be able to execute vendor command
> > set (reverse engineered).
>
> Sounds interesting. :-)
>
> Could you give some more details on what are you going to implement?

Reading/writing service area, uploading, downloading modules, working
with flash etc.