Have you monitored the actual I2C signals?  It sounds like you might
have a shorted signal, or possibly one of the I2C devices is confused
and keeping the data line pulled low.

On 3/10/2014 9:08 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 
> Iam using TMDSSK3358 <http://www.ti.com/tool/TMDSSK3358> EVM from TI. I 
> posted this query in the TI website but didnt get much of help. I feel that 
> my EVM is more similar in architecture to  BBB. So iam posting this here. 
> Please do help me....
> 
> The EVM (master) is connected to mpu6050 (imu) via I2C .(iam using linux 
> sdk and i2cdev) I poll the readings from MPU continously.
> 
> The code is provided in the following link :
> 
> https://github.com/richardghirst/PiBits/tree/master/MPU6050-Pi-Demo
> 
> Iam experiencing these errors: "*omap_i2c omap_i2c.1: Arbitration lost*" 
> and "*waiting for bus ready*". The EVM *cannot be rebooted(via software)* 
> then. 
> I have to power off the device to make it work again.
> 
> I used the same code to *work in raspberry pi* and it worked without any 
> issues. . I saw that the I2c bus in EVM is shared between many internal 
> devices like PMIC,Memory etc ... whereas its not so in raspberry. Is this 
> the cause?
> 
> Or is it that my EVM expects n bytes from slave and my slave can only 
> respond to less than n bytes at a time? Thus making my master wait for the 
> data it will never recieve and hence go insane!...
> 
> I also came to know that the i2c on getting timed out, calls the init 
> function, but the bus arbitration doesnt change  the state(from the waiting 
> state).
> 
> I kindly request your help, as i couldnt find any way sorting this out!.. 
>  :(
> 
> Please help me out on this asap.....
> 


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