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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
	Rui Wang <ruiv.wang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] i2c, i2c_imc: Add DIMM bus code
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:32:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221153239.20dbb8c2@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWEexCqH5486Qfyt22i5+MZjpETJEMTyg6FO6xOwXuraQ@mail.gmail.com>

> I'm suggesting identifying a range of addresses on a bus with a "port"
> (or whatever it should be called).  Multiple ports could claim
> non-overlapping ranges on the same bus.

Which is fine until you meant a mux or a device that can be moved about
by writing to it, or has a wide range of addresses determined by
strapping.

> In this particular case (Intel LGA2011 systems), there's only one sane
> way to wire up the busses, since the memory controller *is* the smbus
> master.  According to the JEDEC spec, each DIMM slot is has three pins

Ok that helps a lot for the specific case, and you have at least in
theory got a flag between the OS and BIOS to avoid things like SMM
throwing parties on the smbus while you are using it.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-21  1:45 [PATCH v6 0/4] iMC SMBUS driver and DIMM bus probing Andy Lutomirski
2013-12-21  1:45 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] Move Intel SNB device ids from sb_edac to pci_ids.h Andy Lutomirski
2013-12-21  1:45 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] sb_edac: Claim a different PCI device Andy Lutomirski
2013-12-21  1:45 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] i2c_imc: New driver for Intel's iMC, found on LGA2011 chips Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-19 15:38   ` Wolfram Sang
2014-02-19 17:10     ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-12-21  1:45 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] i2c, i2c_imc: Add DIMM bus code Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-19 15:16   ` Wolfram Sang
2014-02-19 17:30     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-19 18:51       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-02-19 19:03         ` Luck, Tony
2014-02-20  1:39           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-20 16:42             ` Luck, Tony
2014-02-20 23:43               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-28 19:15             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-02-28 20:14               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-19 19:26       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-20  1:30         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-21 15:32           ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-02-25 19:54             ` Andy Lutomirski

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