In message 0212041401260G.06014@pcj86.jena.mazet.de you wrote:
Hm, what's the meaning of CFG_I2C_SLAVE ? I've expected it's the highes valid slave address, isn't it ?
No, what makes you think so? It's the value that gets programmed into the MPC8xx I2C controller's I2ADD register. See the Users Manual for details.
The subject suggests you ntended to ask something different?
Oops, I've forgot to ask. Now, at my TQ there is a so named FRAM I2C brick connected to I2CSDA (PB27) and I2CSCL (PB26). The FRAM has two different addresses both above 0x7F, 0xAE for write access and 0xAF for read access.
No. The FRAM has just one address: 0x57. The first octet sent on the I2C bus contains the 7 address bits plus a read/write bit. The I2C interface as used in U-Boot does NOT consider the read/write bit a part of the address - we use the plain 7 bit device address.
The FRAM is similar to E2PROM bricks like AT24C64.
Yes, I know. You can find a configuration featuring a FM24CL64 FRAM in the LWMON config file ("include/configs/lwmon.h").
My question: Is there an read/write abstraction layer inside of the I2C stuff of PPCBoot ? I don't know if I should use the bit shifted address 0x57
You mean something like i2c_read() and i2c_write()? Of course there is. And there is also extensive command line support for I2C. Use "help".
instead of 0xAE for calling imd -- I think 0x57. However, upt to now I've tried both addresses without success.
You probably got the address length wrong. See the LWMON board for a working example.
Ah, just now I see there is a nice tool to scan I2C devices (iprobe). Can anybody give me an generic command line dump with iprobe in action? I've ran iprobe but without any success. The only thing I see is:
=> iprobe Valid chip addresses:
Be careful. "iprobe" with the HW I2C code may take _very_ long to complete. If you don't need very fast bulk data transfers (100 kHz clock or more) you will find it probably much simpler to use SW (bitbanging) I2C instead.
Here is what I get on a LWMON board:
U-Boot 0.1.1 (Dec 4 2002 - 14:19:27)
CPU: PPC823EZTnnB2 at 66 MHz: 16 kB I-Cache 8 kB D-Cache Board: Litronic Monitor IV Watchdog enabled I2C: ready DRAM: 64 MB POST spr PASSED FLASH: 16 MB KEYBD: Version 1.2 Net: SCC ETHERNET POST cache PASSED POST i2c PASSED POST cpu PASSED POST ethernet PASSED POST spi PASSED POST usb PASSED PCMCIA: No Card found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 => iprobe Valid chip addresses: 2E 51 52 53 55 56 =>
I think iprobe has not found any valid chip. Is it so ?
Seems so.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk