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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:46:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/04] ARM: shmobile: Genmai I2C-over-GPIO support
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Hi Magnus,

On Thursday 28 November 2013 09:44:31 Magnus Damm wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 November 2013 17:28:05 Magnus Damm wrote:
> >> From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
> >> 
> >> Add support for the Genmai I2C bus hooked up to P1_5 and P1_4 using
> >> the i2c-gpio driver. On the bus sits a 24c128 EEPRROM.
> > 
> > Is this a temporary workaround until we get a proper I2C controller
> > driver, or is the EEPROM really hooked up to pins that are not wired to a
> > hardware I2C controller ?
> 
> This is a stop-gap solution until we have upstream driver support for the
> I2C master hardware.

OK, no problem. Is there a timeline for that ?

> The pins used for the I2C bus can be configured in GPIO mode or a zillion
> other pin functions including SCL and SDA.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart