Re: [PATCH V2] MIPS: Octeon: Register EEPROM device on the I2C bus

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:06:47PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:

> The Linux kernel doesn't care, but user-space may. As a matter of fact,
> there is a script out there (decode-dimms, in the i2c-tools package)
> decoding the SPD data and presenting it to the user. Some people want
> to know the details about their memory modules.
> 
> > I also wonder how this will work for configurations with multiple memory
> > modules thus multiple SPD EEPROMS.
> 
> The kernel code should instantiate one spd device per memory module
> (assuming they are all reachable.) Obviously this can't be done in a
> static way.

SPD is virtually omnipresent these days so I wonder if maybe there already
is some probing functionality already available?

  Ralf