Re: Reading SPD on Intel Patsburg on Supermicro X9SRG-F board

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:30:14PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:12:48PM -0800, Alun Evans wrote:
> > 
> > On 29 Jan 2014, at 11:48, Alun Evans <alun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the responses everyone, inline,
> > > 
> > > On 29 Jan 2014, at 10:25, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > >>> Hi Alun,
> > >>> <snip>
> > >> 
> > >>> Please ask Supermicro about it.
> > > 
> > > I have put a request in… We’ll see if I get a response.
> > > 
> > >>> If the memory slots are behind an I2C
> > >>> multiplexer, ask them if the multiplexer is I2C-based or GPIO-based. If
> > >>> I2C-based, ask for the multiplexer type and address. If GPIO-based, ask
> > >>> for the chip name and pin numbers for the GPIOs. In both case, please
> > >>> ask which GPIO combinations map to which memory slots.
> > 
> > I inlined the above hunk with my question, and the first response was:
> > 
> > > Received feedback; The memory address does not use mux.  It is hardware defined by Intel.
> > 
> > So I went and clarified I was not talking about the DDR physical address setup by the memory reference code, and I got:
> > 
> > > Per our engineer; There is no hardware connecting to DIMM.
> > 
> > I’m not sure I’ve found the right help here...
> > 
> Actually you might have. On some HW the DIMMs are connceted to a separate
> SMBus channel which is not visible to SW.
> 
I had a quick glance into the Patsburg (c600) datasheet. The chip has
up to four SMBus channels, depending on chip variant. Are you sure
that you are talking to the correct one ? What do you see with lspci ?

Thanks,
Guenter

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