Re: eeprom Board Information EEPROM

[Andreas Werner <wernerandy@gmx.de>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:52:10PM +0530, kavitha bk wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Andreas Werner <wernerandy@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > I have a question regarding a driver for a Board Information EEPROM.
> >
> > I want to give our customer easy access to our Board Information EEPROM
> > which is an 256byte I2C eeprom.
> >
> 
> 
> >
> > There is a defined structure of information at the beginning of the eeprom
> > which includes board name, serialnumber, production date, repair date and
> > a eeprom structure ident number.
> >
> > The rest of the eeprom is for user defined settings where customer can
> > write
> > any data to.
> >
> > I want to have access to the eeprom without any special to and without
> > installing
> > anything just running linux and to a cat/echo to sysfs entries to
> > read/write
> > data to the eeprom.
> >
> > What i want to do is to create sysfs entries for the pre defined settings
> > and
> > on entrie where customer can access the rest of the eeprom bytes.
> >
> > Is drivers/misc/eeprom the right place to put those kind of driver in?
> 
> 
> Yes You can add here
> 
> > Or are
> > there any other options to write those kind of driver?
> >
> 
> Which eeprom are you using? You can explore CONFIG_EEPROM_AT24 driver for
> writing a sys interface
> 

Ok i will check it out.

Thanks.

Regards
Andy

> 
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Andy
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