[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 08/13] post/i2c: Don't probe address 0

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Fri Oct 22 07:20:29 CEST 2010


According to the I2C specification device address 0 is the "general call
address", ie a broadcast address.  The I2C specification states that the
format of a general call uses at least 2 bytes, which U-Boot's probing
routine does not adhere to.

Not probing device address 0 will prevent possible issues with devices
that accept general calls.  Additionally, this change shouldn't reduce
POST coverage since each I2C device should still be accessed via its
own, unique address.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
---
 post/drivers/i2c.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/post/drivers/i2c.c b/post/drivers/i2c.c
index 0cbbf77..3508177 100644
--- a/post/drivers/i2c.c
+++ b/post/drivers/i2c.c
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ int i2c_post_test (int flags)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 #ifndef I2C_ADDR_LIST
-	for (i = 0; i < 128; i++)
+	/* Start at address 1, address 0 is the general call address */
+	for (i = 1; i < 128; i++)
 		if (i2c_probe (i) == 0)
 			return 0;
 
@@ -55,7 +56,8 @@ int i2c_post_test (int flags)
 	int j;
 	const unsigned char i2c_addr_list[] = I2C_ADDR_LIST;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < 128; i++) {
+	/* Start at address 1, address 0 is the general call address */
+	for (i = 1; i < 128; i++) {
 		if (i2c_probe(i) != 0)
 			continue;
 
-- 
1.7.0.4



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