Sounds like the two of you have it "surrounded". Good info Harvey :)

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Harvey White <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 18:27:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >I have a quick question about supported i2c eeprom types.
> >
> >From the user side is there a way to query/list supported types (ie.
> >24c256)?
>
> The 24C256 is 32K * 8, and as such, needs a 16 bit address.  This
> particular chip ignores the most significant bit of the address.  With
> this same addressing model, the maximum capacity would be 64K, which
> would use all 16 bits, and would be a 24C512.
>
> The 24C1024 will need 3 address bytes, not two, and unless the driver
> knows to put in that third address byte, the maximum addressable range
> is 64K.
>
> Further, there are several ways of writing data, either page mode or
> byte mode.  Byte mode needs an address for each byte.  Page mode must
> be written so that the data does NOT cross an absolute page boundary,
> otherwise it wraps without an error and you get bad data written. Page
> size does vary amongst the various chips in the family.  You write a
> page (or part of a page) without wrapping, and then the chip refreshes
> and writes the new page.
>
> Reading must be done by starting a write (chip address and 16 address
> bits), a repeated start, and then the chip address as read.  Data can
> be read as long as the read sequence is active, page boundaries are
> not significant here.  If no address is provided, the previous address
> is used as a start and automatically incremented each byte read.
>
> So basically, 24C01, 24C02, 24C04, 24C08, 24C16, 24C32, 24C64, 24C128,
> 24C256 and 24C512 can all be handled with 16 bit addresses.  The
> 24C1024 and above need the 24 bit address driver.  If the driver knows
> the page size, then all of these chips can be written by the same
> driver.  Reading can handle any of these chips.
>
> Had to write a driver for these chips a few weeks back.
>
> Pretty much anything in the 24C series below a 24C1024 can be read and
> written by the same driver if you know the parameters.  1024 and above
> can be handled if the driver is smart enough.
>
> No idea how the existing driver is written, but this is what's
> involved.
>
> Harvey
>
>
> >Conversely, is there a way to define a new type from user space and add
> it,
> >maybe through i2c-1/new_device?
> >
> >Documentation other than the SRM?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
> >On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:42:05 AM UTC-7, Michael Carr wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Robert, Jason and William,
> >>
> >> Sorry for not pulling the device tree files, I've been out of town. I
> hope
> >> the files help someone in the future if they purchase a mikroBus cape.
> >>
> >> This morning I found that the mikroBus cape is using a Microchip 24AA01
> >> (1K, 128 x 8) eeprom not a 24C256. Two questions came to mind after I
> found
> >> this out.
> >>
> >> 1.) The Microchip 24AA01 doesn't use A0 ~ A2 (Don't Care). Responds to
> any
> >> 0x5X address. Potential cape addressing conflicts here.
> >> 2.) The non-B version clock is limited to 100Khz.
> >>
> >> Is the default clock for i2c bus 1 > 100khz? Ex. 400Khz 1000Khz? Can I
> >> force it to 100 Khz?
> >>
> >> Yep, having problems writing to the eeprom. The schematics don't agree
> >> with the delivered board.
> >> Looks like they intended to use the 24C256 but in manufacturing they
> used
> >> the 24AA01 instead.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 10:27:54 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks! Pushed as part of:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel/commit/c43f83c076c30cfbd98d4c00f962ca22a9563933
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Michael Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Robert,
> >>> >
> >>> > I've ordered a MikroBus cape from MikroElektronica. They have a
> device
> >>> tree
> >>> > source file to support the cape. May I pass it along to you to add to
> >>> > github?
> >>> >
> >>> > The eeprom on the card is empty and I will need to generate the
> >>> contents.
> >>> > Does anyone have a tool to create/read/write eeprom contents via
> >>> cloud9? I
> >>> > tried running eeprom-web.js and I get a cloud9 error.
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > Mike
> >>> >
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