Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:56:08 -0800 From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i2c on RPi Zero? Message-ID: <20190105215608.GA55315@bluezbox.com> In-Reply-To: <e981729d-bb71-c74e-aaa7-86c7447b1f24@hedeland.org> References: <229e0d36-a07b-8551-9613-0bf5748352e7@hedeland.org> <dc9441e2-9858-989e-a135-3ae37de0925b@hedeland.org> <20190105195808.GA53872@bluezbox.com> <e981729d-bb71-c74e-aaa7-86c7447b1f24@hedeland.org>
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Per Hedeland (per@hedeland.org) wrote:
> On 2019-01-05 20:58, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> > Per Hedeland (per@hedeland.org) wrote:
> >> I did a bit more testing on the Zero to see if the FreeBSD version
> >> mattered:
> >>
> >> FreeBSD-12.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20190103-r342709.img - still no
> >> luck.
> >>
> >> FreeBSD-11.2-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20190103-r342709.img - works!
> >> (I.e. dmesg reports as below and /dev/iic{0,1} get created - I haven't
> >> tested actual usage beyond having 'i2c -s' report "no devices found".)
> >>
> >> I guess that the i2c support hasn't been removed intentionally,
> >> i.e. this seems to be a regression - or is there some additional
> >> config etc required to enable it with FreeBSD-12? The iic and iicbus
> >> drivers appear to be built into the kernel in both 11 and 12.
> >>
> >> (I haven't tested FreeBSD-12 on the Pi B, but I would guess that the
> >> result will be the same as on the Zero, since it seems the hardware is
> >> the same.)
> >
> > There was a transition in device tree files between 11 and 12.
> > bcm2708-rpi-0-w.dtb has i2c nodes but they're disabled by default.
> > Try editing config.txt on FAT partition and adding following line:
> >
> > dtparam=i2c
> >
> > This should make boot firmware to enable device nodes in the device
> > tree blob during the boot.
>
> Thanks a lot! I can confirm that this makes i2c "work" on Zero with
> 12-RELEASE (almost) to the extent described above for 11.2-STABLE (it
> detects/creates only iic0, not iic1, but as far as I understand from
> other sources, iic0 is all that is needed for "plain B" and thus also
> for Zero).
>
> Should I file a PR for this? I assume that the i2c nodes being
> disabled is not intentional...
Yes, please do. There are also other devices, that should be enabled by
default, like SPI.
Thanks
--
gonzo
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