Hi Robin, On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:19 -0500, Robin Getz wrote: > Mark/Jean: > > I have a new I2C slave which has 32-bit data/addresses that I'm trying to > figure out if I can connect up to the i801x chipset... > > A read is: > > S Addr Wr [A] Comm(31:24) [A] Comm(23:16) [A] Comm(15:8) [A] Comm(7:0) [A] > S Addr R [A] [Data(31:24)] A [Data(23:16)] A [Data(15:8)] A [Data(7:0)] NA P > > A Write is: > > S Addr Wr [A] Comm(31:24) [A] Comm(23:16) [A] Comm(15:8) [A] Comm(7:0) [A] > Data(31:24) [A] Data(23:16) [A] Data(15:8) [A] Data(7:0) [A] P > > Comm the 32-bit data which selects the register on the I2C slave. > > I can use I2C to do this... > > The question is - it doesn't look like the ./drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c > supports enough I2C to do this - and I don't think I can abuse SMBus to talk > to the part. > > Would you agree with my speculation? or am I missing some I2C_FUNC_I2C > somewhere? or some magic way to make SMBUS work? Your assumption is correct, the above transactions won't work on the ICH SMBus. More precisely, writes will work but reads won't. For reads, you'll need a full-featured I2C master. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/wishlist.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
