On 6/3/08, Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-elektor.c       |    2 +-
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gpio.c          |    2 +-
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c          |    2 +-
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c       |    4 ++--
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-iop3xx.c        |    2 +-
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c          |    2 +-
>  > >  >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c           |    2 +-
>  >
>  > Freescale embedded, no sticks
>
>
> I know you're wrong about this one, because I have a Freescale board with
>  an mpc i2c adapter with SPD SODIMMs on the I2C bus sitting right in front
>  of me.  The whole reason I added hexdump support the I2C tools' SPD parser
>  was so I could parse the SPD data by hexdumping the eeproms with busybox.

Which CPU are you using? Maybe we should change to a socket.

>  Using SPD with embedded boards isn't uncommon.  It's much easier to design
>  a board with a SO-DIMM slot than actual chips.  In small quantities at
>  least, it's cheaper too.  Using SPD is much more flexiable when you want to
>  change memory size or speed, even if the memory isn't socketed.  If you
>  look at U-Boot, most platforms are using SPD for DRAM controller setup and
>  not hard coded values.
>


-- 
Jon Smirl
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