From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] i2c: Let bus drivers add SPD to their class Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:03:39 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910806031503w46662d4fib36d3b67563bbdf1@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080603130221.1f819e64@hyperion.delvare> <200806031319.56606.david-b@pacbell.net> <9e4733910806031412t52e7ed1bl8fd56751bef12a7a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org To: Trent Piepho Cc: David Brownell , Linux I2C List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On 6/3/08, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-elektor.c | 2 +- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gpio.c | 2 +- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 2 +- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c | 4 ++-- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-iop3xx.c | 2 +- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c | 2 +- > > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c | 2 +- > > > > Freescale embedded, no sticks > > > I know you're wrong about this one, because I have a Freescale board with > an mpc i2c adapter with SPD SODIMMs on the I2C bus sitting right in front > of me. The whole reason I added hexdump support the I2C tools' SPD parser > was so I could parse the SPD data by hexdumping the eeproms with busybox. Which CPU are you using? Maybe we should change to a socket. > Using SPD with embedded boards isn't uncommon. It's much easier to design > a board with a SO-DIMM slot than actual chips. In small quantities at > least, it's cheaper too. Using SPD is much more flexiable when you want to > change memory size or speed, even if the memory isn't socketed. If you > look at U-Boot, most platforms are using SPD for DRAM controller setup and > not hard coded values. > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c