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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..38d951f103 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +============================== +Linux I2C slave EEPROM backend +============================== + +by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2014-20 + +This backend simulates an EEPROM on the connected I2C bus. Its memory contents +can be accessed from userspace via this file located in sysfs:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<device-directory>/slave-eeprom + +The following types are available: 24c02, 24c32, 24c64, and 24c512. Read-only +variants are also supported. The name needed for instantiating has the form +'slave-<type>[ro]'. Examples follow: + +24c02, read/write, address 0x64: + # echo slave-24c02 0x1064 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +24c512, read-only, address 0x42: + # echo slave-24c512ro 0x1042 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +You can also preload data during boot if a device-property named +'firmware-name' contains a valid filename (DT or ACPI only). + +As of 2015, Linux doesn't support poll on binary sysfs files, so there is no +notification when another master changed the content. |