query regarding I2C controller on MPC8260

["Vijay Padiyar" <vijay_padiyar@hotmail.com>]

Hi there

I am using an MPC8260-based target board. My target is running U-Boot 1.1.2
as the bootloader and Linux-2.6.10 as the kernel with BusyBox-1.0. I wish to
use the I2C controller on the MPC8260 to access an external EEPROM connected
to it. I need to do this from *user space*.

>From what I understand, we can open the I2C device with the open command
from our application as follows:

ret = open ("/dev/i2c-0", O_RDWR);

After this, the device should be accessible using either standard I2C
functions or SMBus functions.

I read that if the I2C controller supports SMBus, it will be preferable to
access the device via the SMBus read/write functions, as they seem to be
more "efficient." What I want to know is, does the PowerPC I2C controller
support the SMBus protocol? I don't think it does, judging from the MPC8260
manual, but just want to be sure.

Also, do we need to create the /dev/i2c-0 device file manually or will it be
created on the fly?

Regards

Vijay Padiyar

http://www.vijaypadiyar.eu.tf