Re: [PATCH v10] i2c: virtio: add a virtio i2c frontend driver
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue Jun 29 2021 - 04:27:14 EST
Hi Viresh,
> While we are at it, this has been replaced by a Rust counterpart [1]
> (as that makes it hypervisor agnostic, which is the goal of my work
> here) and I need someone with I2C knowledge to help review it. It
> should be okay even if you don't understand Rust a lot, just review
> this file[2] which is where most of i2c specific stuff lies.
Can't promise I can do this before my holidays, but I will try.
> I am not sure why you say I2C_RDWR isn't supported. The spec and Linux
This is how I interpreted Arnd's response. I said mulitple times that I
might be missing something so I double check.
> SMBUS. To clarify on an earlier point, every virtio transfer may
> contain one or more struct i2c_msg instances, all processed together
> (as expected).
That was the information missing for me so far becasue...
> If you see virtio_i2c_send_reqs() in this patch, you will see that it
> converts a stream of i2c_req messages to their virtio counterparts and
> send them together, consider it a single transaction.
... when I checked virtio_i2c_send_reqs(), I also saw
virtqueue_add_sgs() but I had no idea if this will end up as REP_START
on the physical bus or not. But it definately should.
Thanks for the pointers!
Wolfram
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