From f118301416953d677de738100c33eb8cfb7adecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:58:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Implement I2C Block transactions Implement the I2C block transactions on VIA chips which support them: VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235 and VT8237R. This speeds up EEPROM accesses by a factor 10 or so. I would like to thank Antonino A. Daplas, Hinko Kocevar, Salah Coronya and Andreas Henriksson for their help in testing this new feature. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 7 +++++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro index ef0f1e94e726..387cbd4015fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Authors: Frodo Looijaard , Philip Edelbrock , Kyösti Mälkki , - Mark D. Studebaker + Mark D. Studebaker , + Jean Delvare Module Parameters ----------------- @@ -43,3 +44,7 @@ Your lspci -n listing must show one of these : If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB. + +Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably +VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions +are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs. -- cgit v1.2.3