Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Add support for SPD5118 compliant temperature sensors

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On May 31, 2024, at 11:31, Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>>> Wolfgang seems to think it's important:
> 
> Wolfram, please.
> 
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/tdia472d4pow2osabef24y2ujkkquplfajxmmtk5pnxllsdxsz@wxzynz7llasr/
>>> 
>> 
>> Ok, but that doesn't explain the reason. Wolfram, Paul, why do you
>> think this is needed ? Note that I am not opposed to adding spd
>> eeprom support, but I'd like to know why I am doing it before
>> I spend time on it.
> 
> A working eeprom driver is needed to get 'decode-dimms' from the
> i2c-tools package working. Jean reported that EEPROM access for DDR5 is
> different from DDR4, so it needs a separate driver. And
> i2c_register_spd() then needs to be updated to use the new driver for
> DDR5.

Well my original downstream driver already had eeprom access:

	https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/kernel/linux/spd-5118.patch

Note there are some surrounding -2, and parity patches around this patch.

Thanks,
	René

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