At Montag, 14. Juli 2003 13:46 you wrote:
> Here you are:
> #define I2C_DRIVERID_SAA1064 1041
Thanks :-)
> You should take a look at our matorb driver, which handles Matrix
> Orbital LCD displays. There may be similar mechanisms with the hardware
> you are writing a driver for. Probably not enough to make a similar
> driver (not even the same I2C address) but worth the look anyway.
Yes, I have used pcf8574.c as a template, and matorb.c to "steal" the code
for the digit registers, but I implemented communication differently, since
this chip doesn't react to smbus-like commands (like those two do), but
needs real i2c-com.
I have to look about the addresses, my devices are hardwired on 0x38 and
0x3b, but the datasheet says something completely different about possible
addresses. Also, the datasheet says reading (one status byte with one bit
indicating a power loss) is on a different address than writing. By now, I
have these two addresses as the only probed ones (which also conflict with
the pcf8574a driver :-( ).
> Once you have your driver ready, send it to us so that we can have a
> look and tell you what we think about it. If you follow the guidelines
> as found in our docs, it should be OK. Howevern, due to a recent change
> in our structures, if you have written your driver for the 2.4.21 Linux
> kernel, it won't integrate directly into lm_sensors CVS. Don't worry,
> we'll take care of this point.
Currently I'm using a sensors- and i2c-2.7.0 patched kernel. But I guess
"recent" doesn't include that :-)
> We also have to find a detection mechanism for the SAA1064. It doesn't
> seem to have any register dedicated to identification, so it will be
> tricky. However, it looks like there are only three wires for register
> selection, so maybe the data will "cycle" over 8-byte boundaries (the
> same way the LM75 cycles over 4-byte boundaries. That, plus the fact
> that the SAA1064 uses an unusual address range (0x38-0x3b), should make
> the detection possible. Could you send us the output of i2cdump for
> confirmation? Also, bit 7 of the control register seems to be unused, as
> seem to be the registers 0x05 to 0x07. That may help for the detection
> too.
The chip receives an register-address byte followed by n (don't know how
many, datasheet only specifies 6 at once) data bytes. The register address
is encreased by every data byte, wrapping around at 7. The data has to be
written in one physical block, since the device expects a new block
starting with the register-address after a stop-condition. That's why
smbus-commands don't work either, I guess.
Well i2cdump doesn't give ME much info, maybe it does for you (output for
modes byte, word and i2cblock attached).
> Phil will do so when he's back, I hope.
Thx.
Greetings,
Sascha
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# i2cdump 2 0x38 b
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
# i2cdump 2 0x38 w
0,8 1,9 2,a 3,b 4,c 5,d 6,e 7,f
00: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
08: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
10: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
18: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
20: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
28: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
30: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
38: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
40: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
48: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
50: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
58: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
60: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
68: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
70: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
78: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
80: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
88: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
90: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
98: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
a8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
b8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
c8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
d8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
e8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
f8: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
# i2cdump 2 0x38 i
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
