[PATCH v2] regmap-i2c: add SMBus byte/word reg16 bus for adapters lacking I2C_FUNC_I2C

From: Nishanth Sampath Kumar

Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 19:40:53 EST


AMD PIIX4 SMBus adapters, present on AMD SP5/EPYC-based platforms
(including Cisco 8000 series routers), support SMBUS_BYTE_DATA and
SMBUS_WORD_DATA but lack I2C_FUNC_I2C and I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK.

When at24 (or any driver) requests a regmap with reg_bits=16 and
val_bits=8 on such an adapter, regmap_get_i2c_bus() finds no matching
bus and returns -ENOTSUPP. The existing regmap_i2c_smbus_i2c_block_reg16
bus type already implements 16-bit addressed reads using only
write_byte_data() + read_byte() primitives, but its selection is gated
on I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK which these adapters lack.

Add a new regmap_smbus_byte_word_reg16 bus that:

READ: reuses regmap_i2c_smbus_i2c_read_reg16() -- sets the 16-bit
address via write_byte_data(addr_lo, addr_hi), then reads
bytes sequentially via read_byte() (EEPROM auto-increments).
Requires only SMBUS_BYTE_DATA.

WRITE: uses write_word_data(addr_hi, (data << 8) | addr_lo) to
encode one data byte per SMBus WORD transaction.
Requires only SMBUS_WORD_DATA. Single-byte writes only.

The new bus is selected in regmap_get_i2c_bus() when reg_bits=16,
val_bits=8, and the adapter has SMBUS_BYTE_DATA | SMBUS_WORD_DATA but
not I2C_FUNC_I2C or SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK. The branch is placed after the
existing I2C_BLOCK_reg16 check so adapters with full block support
continue to use the faster path.

This fixes at24 EEPROM probe failures on PIIX4:
at24 3-0055: probe with driver at24 failed with error -524

No driver changes are required -- at24 already passes reg_bits=16 to
devm_regmap_init_i2c(), which now succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Sampath Kumar <nissampa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2: Moved fix from at24 driver into regmap-i2c core per review
feedback from Bartosz Golaszewski and Mark Brown.

drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.c
@@ -303,6 +303,50 @@
.max_raw_write = I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX - 2,
};

+/*
+ * SMBus byte/word reg16 support for adapters that have SMBUS_BYTE_DATA
+ * and SMBUS_WORD_DATA but lack I2C_FUNC_I2C and I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK,
+ * such as the AMD PIIX4.
+ *
+ * READ: set 16-bit EEPROM address via write_byte_data(addr_lo, addr_hi),
+ * then sequentially read bytes via read_byte() (EEPROM auto-
+ * increments the address pointer). Same as the I2C-block reg16
+ * read path above.
+ *
+ * WRITE: encode the low address byte and data into a word transaction:
+ * write_word_data(addr_hi, (data_byte << 8) | addr_lo).
+ * Only single-byte writes are supported (one value per transaction).
+ */
+static int regmap_smbus_word_write_reg16(void *context, const void *data,
+ size_t count)
+{
+ struct device *dev = context;
+ struct i2c_client *i2c = to_i2c_client(dev);
+ u8 addr_hi, addr_lo, val;
+
+ /*
+ * data layout: [addr_hi, addr_lo, val0, val1, ...].
+ * Only single-byte value writes are supported; multi-byte would
+ * require raw I2C (or repeated word writes with incrementing address).
+ */
+ if (count != 3)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ addr_hi = ((u8 *)data)[0];
+ addr_lo = ((u8 *)data)[1];
+ val = ((u8 *)data)[2];
+
+ return i2c_smbus_write_word_data(i2c, addr_hi,
+ cpu_to_le16(((u16)val << 8) | addr_lo));
+}
+
+static const struct regmap_bus regmap_smbus_byte_word_reg16 = {
+ .write = regmap_smbus_word_write_reg16,
+ .read = regmap_i2c_smbus_i2c_read_reg16,
+ .max_raw_read = I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX - 2,
+ .max_raw_write = 1,
+};
+
static const struct regmap_bus *regmap_get_i2c_bus(struct i2c_client *i2c,
const struct regmap_config *config)
{
@@ -321,6 +365,11 @@
i2c_check_functionality(i2c->adapter,
I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK))
bus = &regmap_i2c_smbus_i2c_block_reg16;
+ else if (config->val_bits == 8 && config->reg_bits == 16 &&
+ i2c_check_functionality(i2c->adapter,
+ I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA |
+ I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WORD_DATA))
+ bus = &regmap_smbus_byte_word_reg16;
else if (config->val_bits == 16 && config->reg_bits == 8 &&
i2c_check_functionality(i2c->adapter,
I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WORD_DATA))