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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alex David <alex.daerf@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Trying to write a new device / virtio-i2c ?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:30:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53021CF6.5010808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA17Vo9iMsJ2gMHKFxc_dkZzmJ_q8EfFCDLyfMaAgi5VTTjiNw@mail.gmail.com>

Il 17/02/2014 14:32, Alex David ha scritto:
>
> But that leaves me with another problem as I now understand how I2C
> works on linux... I, in fact, need at least 3 busses (for my at least 3
> devices) - so i2c-0, i2c-1, i2c-2

So you cannot configure the three devices on the same bus, with three 
different addresses?

> ... There are applications I can't
> change on the guest and opening / writing / reading on i2c-0, i2c-1 etc...
>
> Can I just declare these busses using i2c-dev ?

If you need more than one bus, you need a new device exposing the I2C 
bus, besides the new sensor devices.  USB-I2C could be one such device.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 13:26 [Qemu-devel] Trying to write a new device / virtio-i2c ? Alex David
2014-02-14 15:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-14 15:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-14 16:31   ` Andreas Färber
2014-02-14 16:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17  8:35       ` Alex David
2014-02-17  9:19         ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]           ` <CAA17Vo9E9D-jPa3gwhsui3i=APz1FM-41jbK+zpOm2tWf7swdw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-17  9:38             ` [Qemu-devel] Fwd: " Alex David
2014-02-17  9:55               ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                 ` <CAA17Vo_cBCbKkqDu2zQ0DW2FoAyVqxVXGtNGArJ1tnk6N9AUqA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-17 10:38                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 12:23                     ` Alex David
2014-02-17 13:11                       ` Alex David
2014-02-17 13:19                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:32                           ` Alex David
2014-02-17 14:30                             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-17 15:33                               ` Alex David
2014-02-17 16:11                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-18 12:48                                   ` Alex David
2014-02-18 13:05                                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-18 13:44                                       ` Alex David
2014-02-18 13:47                                         ` Paolo Bonzini

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