it should be at 0x54, not 0x04, right? Thomas Loos wrote: > I took a look at the eepromer tools and I will try > them first before writing a full blown driver. > > We wired up a test board for the 24LC256 part and > plugged it into an i2c header on our dev board. The > part was wired up to be address 0x04. I would like to > see i2cdetect find the chip at its address, but did > not. Looking at the documentation for i2cdetect tells > me that this program does not detect all chips. Will > it work for the 24LC256? If it doesn't, are there any > other tools that would get me past the step of seeing > the chip sitting on the bus at a particular address so > I can start reading and writing... > > Thanks, > Tom >> --- Mark Studebaker <mds at mds.gotdns.com> wrote: >> >>> one of the userspace tools in prog/eepromer may be >>> sufficient for what >>> you need. You could do a new chip driver for the >> big >>> eeprom but then you >>> have to go through /sys files which is awkward for >>> eeproms; >>> look hard at doing userspace access through >>> /dev/i2c-x, >>> better and you don't have to write a new driver. >>> >>> mds >>> >>> >>> Thomas Loos wrote: >>>> Hello All! >>>> I need to support three Microchip 24LC256 >> EEPROMs >>> in a >>>> project. We are using a ColdFire 5485, >> Freescale >>>> 2.6.10 distribution. I2C is working and the >>> i2c-tools >>>> i2cset, i2cdump, and i2cdetect are compiled in >> to >>> the >>>> kernel. Is this chip supported already? If >> not, >>> I >>>> will be writing a driver, to be included >>>> with the lm_sensors package. I have spent the >>> last >>>> few days reading the documentation, which is >> good, >>> but >>>> will most likely need your help!!! >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> >> __________________________________________________ >>>> Do You Yahoo!? >>>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >>> protection around >>>> http://mail.yahoo.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lm-sensors mailing list >>>> lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org >>>> > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >> protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors >
