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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-07-26 09:51:16 -0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-07-31 13:25:27 -0600 |
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docs: i2c: convert to ReST and add to driver-api bookset
Convert each file at I2C subsystem, renaming them to .rst and
adding to the driver-api book.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2f8fcf671b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol.rst @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +============ +I2C Protocol +============ + +This document describes the i2c protocol. Or will, when it is finished :-) + +Key to symbols +============== + +=============== ============================================================= +S (1 bit) : Start bit +P (1 bit) : Stop bit +Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0. +A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit. +Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to + get a 10 bit I2C address. +Comm (8 bits): Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on + the device. +Data (8 bits): A plain data byte. Sometimes, I write DataLow, DataHigh + for 16 bit data. +Count (8 bits): A data byte containing the length of a block operation. + +[..]: Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the + host adapter. +=============== ============================================================= + + +Simple send transaction +======================= + +This corresponds to i2c_master_send:: + + S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P + + +Simple receive transaction +========================== + +This corresponds to i2c_master_recv:: + + S Addr Rd [A] [Data] A [Data] A ... A [Data] NA P + + +Combined transactions +===================== + +This corresponds to i2c_transfer + +They are just like the above transactions, but instead of a stop bit P +a start bit S is sent and the transaction continues. An example of +a byte read, followed by a byte write:: + + S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P + + +Modified transactions +===================== + +The following modifications to the I2C protocol can also be generated by +setting these flags for i2c messages. With the exception of I2C_M_NOSTART, they +are usually only needed to work around device issues: + +I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK: + Normally message is interrupted immediately if there is [NA] from the + client. Setting this flag treats any [NA] as [A], and all of + message is sent. + These messages may still fail to SCL lo->hi timeout. + +I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK: + In a read message, master A/NA bit is skipped. + +I2C_M_NOSTART: + In a combined transaction, no 'S Addr Wr/Rd [A]' is generated at some + point. For example, setting I2C_M_NOSTART on the second partial message + generates something like:: + + S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA Data [A] P + + If you set the I2C_M_NOSTART variable for the first partial message, + we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the startbit S. This will + probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't try this. + + This is often used to gather transmits from multiple data buffers in + system memory into something that appears as a single transfer to the + I2C device but may also be used between direction changes by some + rare devices. + +I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR: + This toggles the Rd/Wr flag. That is, if you want to do a write, but + need to emit an Rd instead of a Wr, or vice versa, you set this + flag. For example:: + + S Addr Rd [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P + +I2C_M_STOP: + Force a stop condition (P) after the message. Some I2C related protocols + like SCCB require that. Normally, you really don't want to get interrupted + between the messages of one transfer. |