Re: Please mail ATI

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:51:41 +0100 (BST)

> 68340 -- Kevin Peasse (sp) didn't see any point in putting an I2C interface
> chip on the board as there was little push in the I2C direction. I2C makes
> for an interesting network of devices (I have a VCR that, oddly, has an I2C
> interface controller inside it as part of the remote logic.)
>
> I have a few SCSI drive shelves with an I2C comm. bus. (what NetApp calls
> the EMU (env. monitoring) bus.)
>
> I2C is sorta like localtalk (but not.)

A generic i2c bus framework and drivers for msp3400, saa5429 assorted
tuners and bus driver for the BT848 are on their way to Linus as part of
the tv card stuff this weekend. A lot of people ave a lot of i2c busses
they just haven't noticed. Most TV and video equipment is i2c bus internally
(hence the tv cards using it). The acorn ARM boxes have an i2c bus
running around them. BTW i2c is _the_ bus for wiring stupid hacks to a PC
especially since you can bitbang i2c on a parallel port

Alan

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