Generic GPIO I2C bitbang kernel question

[Bill Gatliff]

Brian Hutchinson wrote:
>
> Good talking to you again at ESC!

Likewise!  When are you going to give an actual presentation?  :)

> I've sense been able to get the i2c-core bit banging to work!  I wrote 
> a user land app to write to a eepot and it is working now.  The 
> problem was in fact the line I mentioned that was driving SDA high 
> when it should have been turned into a input to look for the ACK from 
> the slave.

Aaah.  With I2C, you never "drive" the line high--- that's what the 
pullups are for.

So if you want to output a zero, you drive the line low.  To output a 
one, you float the line.


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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