From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 13 17:33:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28299 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles301.castles.com [208.214.167.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28270 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02021; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806132328.QAA02021@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nicolas Souchu cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Marc Bouget Subject: Re: I2C bus In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 23:44:06 -0000." <19980609234406.41618@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:28:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there, > > We're about to write Philips semiconductor support for the I2C bus. > > Of course, we think about writing something generic for the bus and > specific independent code for different controllers (ISA, parallel...) > > If well designed this framework could accept new later developments with > I2C support (ex. hardware monitoring and so on). Indeed. I was actually thinking about this while I was playing with the SMB BIOS stuff, and in fact this is perhaps an interface worth considering. See http://www.sbs-forum.org/specs.htm for the SMB stuff, including the bus specification (closely derived from I2C) and the SMB BIOS interface, which you may choose to implement (perhaps with some augmentation) as the API. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message