[PATCH 0/3] Ensure Low period of SCL is correct

Lucas Tanure tanure at linux.com
Mon Mar 28 15:31:24 PDT 2022


On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 21:37 Kevin Hilman, <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lucas,
>
> Lucas Tanure <tanure at linux.com> writes:
>
> > The default duty cycle of 33% is less than the required
> > by the I2C specs for the LOW period of the SCL clock.
> >
> > So, for 100Khz or less, use 50%H/50%L duty cycle, and
> > for the clock above 100Khz, use 40%H/60%L duty cycle.
> > That ensures the low period of SCL is always more than
> > the minimum required by the specs at any given frequency.
>
> Thanks for the fixes!
>
> This is going to affect all SoCs, so ould you please summarize how your
> changes were tested, and on which SoCs & boards?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin

Hi,

I only tested against the vim3 board, measured the bus with a Saleae
logic pro 16.
The measurements were with 100k, 400k, and a few in-between frequencies.

Is that enough?

Thanks
Lucas



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