@Graham I do have a cape with EEPROM at address 0x57 but the EEPROM is 
wiped with nothing on it so I guess that is why the board doesn't populate 
that address by default. How can I fix that?

On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 11:14:50 PM UTC-4, [email protected] 
wrote:
>
> Those addresses at 0x54-0x57 are reserved by the kernel driver.
>
> Unless you have some capes with those EEPROMS populated, there is nothing 
> actually there.
>
> --- Graham
>
> ==
>
> On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 7:01:27 PM UTC-5, MG wrote:
>>
>> The BeagleBoneBlack comes with an "internal" EEPROM connected to i2c-0 
>> line. I can see that clearly when I do i2cdetect:
>>
>>     debian@beaglebone:~$ i2cdetect -y -r 0
>>      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
>>     00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     20: -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     30: -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     50: UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     70: UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>
>> It is showing under address 0x50. When I try to do ahexdump I get the 
>> following values with no issue:
>>
>>     sudo hexdump -C /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-0/device/0-0050/eeprom | head 
>> -5
>>     00000000  aa 55 33 ee 41 33 33 35  42 4e 4c 54 30 30 30 43  
>> |.U3.A335BNLT000C|
>>     00000010  31 38 33 37 42 42 42 47  30 36 32 32 ff ff ff ff  
>> |1837BBBG0622....|
>>     00000020  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  
>> |................|
>>     *
>>     00001000  aa 55 33 ee 41 33 33 35  42 4e 4c 54 30 30 30 43  
>> |.U3.A335BNLT000C|
>>
>> Now I want to add another EEPROM (with cape) on i2c-2 line which is 
>> supported according to [BBB SRM](
>> https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/BBB_SRM.pdf) section 8.2. It is 
>> the CAT24C256 as mentioned in the SRM. The allowable address range for the 
>> expansion cards is 0x54-0x57. When I do i2cdetect I can see the following:
>>
>>     debian@beaglebone:~$ i2cdetect -r -y 2
>>          0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
>>     00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     50: -- -- -- -- UU UU UU UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
>>     70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --   
>>
>> I can see the addresses 0x54-0x57 showing, but when I try hex dump I get 
>> an error:
>>
>>       hexdump: /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-2/device/2-0054/eeprom: Connection 
>> timed out
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1. Why are they showing as U's not actual address numbers? I know U 
>> stands for used resource?
>> 2. Why am I failing to read from that EEPROM? I have tried all addreses 
>> from 0x54-0x57 with no luck. I can confirm that those addresses are showing 
>> in /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-2/device and the each dir has the following in it:
>>
>>          debian@beaglebone:~$ ls /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-2/device/2-0054/ 
>> -la
>>          total 0
>>          drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     0 Oct 26 19:46 .
>>          drwxr-xr-x 8 root root     0 Oct 26 19:46 ..
>>          drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     0 Oct 26 19:47 2-00540
>>          lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Oct 26 19:47 driver -> 
>> ../../../../../../bus/i2c/drivers/at24
>>          -rw------- 1 root root 32768 Oct 26 19:47 eeprom
>>          -r--r--r-- 1 root root  4096 Oct 26 19:47 modalias
>>          -r--r--r-- 1 root root  4096 Oct 26 19:47 name
>>          lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Oct 26 19:47 of_node -> 
>> ../../../../../../firmware/devicetree/base/ocp/i2c@4819c000/cape_eeprom0@54
>>          drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     0 Oct 26 19:47 power
>>          lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Oct 26 19:47 subsystem -> 
>> ../../../../../../bus/i2c
>>          -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4096 Oct 26 19:47 uevent 
>>
>> I can see the addresses mapping into the kernel but when I try to hexdump 
>> eeprom it doesn't work at all. I though this was supposed to be setup by 
>> kernel since it is mentioned in BeagleBone SRM. Am I going to need an 
>> overlay to add to uboot for this? It doesn't make sense since i2c-2 is 
>> already set up by  default i.e. when I connect another device at address 
>> aside from 0x54-0x57 it shows up fine and I'm able to interface to it?
>>
>> All I'm trying to do is read from the EEPROM like I did with the 
>> "internal" one to confirm it is working. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>

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