[syslinux] i2c bus access

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Feb 28 15:25:17 PST 2014


On 02/28/2014 03:11 AM, João Henrique Freitas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, probably using syslinux as 1st stage bootloader and a small linux (and
> this [1]) as 2nd stage boot will be a quite good solution.
> 
> A bit more explanation about my needs: my custom hardware has a i2c
> controller over PCIe bus. We are using Intel Atom (with EG20T hub). I think
> that is not so simple to create a solid i2c framework inside syslinux to do
> it. Even thought I will need i2c to  read what kind of hardware I am and
> then use the correct device tree to Linux do the job. So I think this job
> is out of scope of syslinux.
> 

Is there any of this you can do in firmware, since this is a custom
design?  Any reason for using device tree as opposed to the more
x86-native native ACPI?

	-hpa




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