Jean Delvare said the following:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:17:14 +0100, Michael Lawnick wrote:
>> Jean Delvare said the following:
>> > Well, what EEPROM type do you have exactly? 24c64 is for 64 kbit (8
>> > kByte) EEPROMs using 16-bit addressing. You must use the correct type,
>> > otherwise the at24 driver will misbehave. I am a little surprised
>> > because originally you went for "eeprom" which is not compatible with
>> > "24c64" (8-bit vs. 16-bit addressing).
>>
>> Furthermore this brings up another issue:
>> 0x50 typically is SPD-eeprom (DDR initialisation). Corrupting the
>> contents might make your board unbootable - and using a 16bit driver
>> instead of an 8-bit one can corrupt your contents already on
>> (positioned) reading!
> 
> This is totally correct, but better said loud to the list and the
> original poster than only privately to me ;)
> 
sh.., :-(

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