> But usually, if a machine's designers meant for the operating system 
> to reach into that part of the i2c address space, they would have 
> described it in some kind of firmware binding.
In an ideal world, yes. In the real world, they provide a Windows driver.

> It's possible that the machine's designers put the i2c device on the
> bus and _didn't_ put any kind of firmware wrapping around it.  If that
> happened, I would expect to find it at least described in some kind of
> motherboard manual.
Really? Back in the day with SUN FEHs, yes. But with today's PeCee hardware?

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