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authorFrodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>1999-02-12 05:43:22 +0000
committerFrodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>1999-02-12 05:43:22 +0000
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More documentation updates
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@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ this package.
file. It read /proc/bus/i2c (or the file specified on the command-line),
and prints to stdout `bus' statements reflecting the currently detected
adapters.
+* prog/detect/dectect.pl (written in Perl, not installed)
+ This program tries to detect the available SMBus adapters. In time, it will
+ also scan each adapter for supported devices (chips).
+* prog/detect/i2cdetect (written in C, not installed)
+ This program scans your complete I2C or SMBus adapter for connected devices.
+ Not all devices can be detected in this way, though; and it may hang your
+ bus. Syntax:
+ ./i2cdetect 0
+ Here the '0' stands for i2c-0 (check /proc/bus/i2c to find out which bus
+ you need).
+* prog/doc/doc-features (written in C, not installed)
+ This program is/will be used to help us generate chip driver documentation.
* prog/dump/i2cdump (written in C, not installed)
This program helps to dump the registers of a I2C device that understands
the 'byte data' or 'word data' SMBus protocols. Usual syntax:
@@ -36,7 +48,8 @@ There are some programs distributed with Simon Vogl's i2c package too:
* i2c/detect/detect (written in C, not installed)
This program needs module `i2c-dev.o' to be loaded. It scans the complete
address range of a certain bus for connected devices. It will only work
- for i2c-level drivers (not for PIIX4 busses).
+ for i2c-level drivers (not for PIIX4 busses). This program is superceded
+ by prog/detect/i2c-detect.
* i2c/eeprom/eeprom (written in C, not installed)
This program needs the i2c `eeprom.o' module (that is the one that is not
installed; it can be found in the i2c/drivers/ directory). It reads from