the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 37d7ac8b5ba12d4618b8a91f35d444fe9572beb4 Author: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Date: Mon May 5 18:03:46 2014 -0700
i2c: Add software_i2c driver for I2C debugging and emulation
This patch adds I2C emulation in software through raw toggling of the SDA/SCL lines. Platforms need to provide bindings to toggle their respective I2C busses for this to work (e.g. by pinmuxing them as GPIOs, currently only enabled for Tegra).
This is mostly useful as a debugging feature, to drive unusual states on a bus and closely monitor the device output without the need of a bus analyzer. It provides a few functions to "wedge" an I2C bus by aborting a transaction at certain points, which can be used to test if a system can correctly recover from an ill-timed reboot. However, it can also dynamically replace the existing I2C transfer functions and drive some/all I2C transfers on the system, which might be useful if a driver for the actual I2C controller hardware is not (yet) available.
Based on original code by Doug Anderson dianders@chromium.org and Hung-ying Tyan tyanh@chromium.org for the ChromeOS embedded controller project.
BRANCH=None BUG=chrome-os-partner:28323 TEST=Spread tegra_software_i2c_init()/tegra_software_i2c_disable() through the code and see that everything still works.
Original-Change-Id: I9ee7ccbd1efb38206669a35d0c3318af16f8be63 Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/198791 Original-Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson dianders@chromium.org Original-Reviewed-by: Tom Warren twarren@nvidia.com Original-Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer reinauer@chromium.org (cherry picked from commit 8f71503dbbd74c5298e90e2163b67d4efe3e89db) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones marc.jones@se-eng.com
Change-Id: Id6c5f75bb5baaabd62b6b1fc26c2c71d9f1ce682 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7947 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: David Hendricks dhendrix@chromium.org
See http://review.coreboot.org/7947 for details.
-gerrit