Re: OMAP: send i2c message ignoring NAK

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Yegor Yefremov
<yegorslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 10:12:09 +0200, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>>> I'm using the second i2c channel to connect to HDMI transmitter
>>> sii9022a. In order to get EDID information from the attached monitor
>>> the sii9022a chip passes i2c request direct to the monitors i2c bus.
>>> To return to sii9022a mode one has to write data to HDMI transmitter,
>>> but this data won't be acknowledged. Because of this i2c produces
>>> timeout permanently (omap_i2c omap_i2c.2: controller timed out), so no
>>> communication is possible. The last bits I see on the scope are the
>>> i2c address of sii9022a. The CPU automatically end the transfer.
>>>
>>> The HDMI chip has i2c address 0x72 (8-bit notation) and EDID channel
>>> 0xa0 (8-bit notation). AFAIK there is only one device at a time on the
>>> bus, i.e. as soon as I switch sii9022a to access monitor only 0xa0
>>> responds to the queries. And I need to send a message to 0x72 ignoring
>>> normal i2c conditions in order to turn it back in normal mode.
>>>
>>> The driver for this HDMI transmitter can be found here:
>>> http://gitorious.org/efikamx/linux-kernel.git
>>> (drivers/video/mxc/siihdmi.c)
>>>
>>> How can I send this write request without awaiting for ACK?
>>
>> Use I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK, see Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.
>
> Jean, thanks for the tip. I got it working by disabling the omap-i2c
> driver and enabling i2c-gpio on the same pins. Only in this
> combination and I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK I could get back to the HDMI chip.
> OMAP i2c driver/I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK combo is not working. But I still got
> no chance to try the latest kernel.

OK may be you are missing patches like
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap.git;a=commit;h=464fca36d98b97ccd05e4f200ab7483d3acc8345

Personally will recommend the latest kernel.


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> Yegor
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