[U-Boot-Users] [Patch 0/9] U-boot-V2: Introduce I2C support for SDP3430

[Menon, Nishanth]

Robert,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Schwebel [mailto:r.schwebel at pengutronix.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: Menon, Nishanth
> Cc: Sascha Hauer; Timur Tabi; Laurent Desnogues; Kamat, Nishant; philip.balister at gmail.com; u-boot-
> users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [Patch 0/9] U-boot-V2: Introduce I2C support for SDP3430
>
> Yea, looking forward especially for PCI patches :-)
;) not in my immediate future at least :D

> Yes, but I think what we most of all need is the i2c communication with
> the device. We should think about if the abstraction of the devices
> *behind* the bus brings us anything; note that you can do lots of things
> in scripts in u-boot-v2. Linke writing a shell function for your usb
> transceivers which just encapsulates the right predefined i2c_read/write
> operations.
>
> > Are we ok with i2ctools movement here?
>
> Hmm? How do you mean that?
I2cdetect, i2cget, i2cset, i2cdump -> see patch 6. They are handy little tools for debug. I2cdev will be required to provide a device interface.

Regards,
Nishanth Menon