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Wolfram Sang59d3d602020-06-28 20:54:26 +02002Linux I2C slave EEPROM backend
Wolfram Sangd0c892f2015-03-23 09:26:38 +01003==============================
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Wolfram Sang59d3d602020-06-28 20:54:26 +02005by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2014-20
Wolfram Sangd0c892f2015-03-23 09:26:38 +01006
Wolfram Sang59d3d602020-06-28 20:54:26 +02007This backend simulates an EEPROM on the connected I2C bus. Its memory contents
8can be accessed from userspace via this file located in sysfs::
Wolfram Sangd0c892f2015-03-23 09:26:38 +01009
Masanari Iida2e049d62016-02-02 20:41:25 +090010 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<device-directory>/slave-eeprom
Wolfram Sangd0c892f2015-03-23 09:26:38 +010011
Wolfram Sang59d3d602020-06-28 20:54:26 +020012The following types are available: 24c02, 24c32, 24c64, and 24c512. Read-only
13variants are also supported. The name needed for instantiating has the form
14'slave-<type>[ro]'. Examples follow:
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1624c02, read/write, address 0x64:
17 # echo slave-24c02 0x1064 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
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1924c512, read-only, address 0x42:
20 # echo slave-24c512ro 0x1042 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
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22You can also preload data during boot if a device-property named
23'firmware-name' contains a valid filename (DT or ACPI only).
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Wolfram Sangd0c892f2015-03-23 09:26:38 +010025As of 2015, Linux doesn't support poll on binary sysfs files, so there is no
Masanari Iida2e049d62016-02-02 20:41:25 +090026notification when another master changed the content.