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| ====================
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| Kernel driver eeprom
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| ====================
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| 
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| Supported chips:
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| 
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|   * Any EEPROM chip in the designated address range
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| 
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|     Prefix: 'eeprom'
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| 
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|     Addresses scanned: I2C 0x50 - 0x57
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| 
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|     Datasheets: Publicly available from:
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| 
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|                 Atmel (www.atmel.com),
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|                 Catalyst (www.catsemi.com),
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|                 Fairchild (www.fairchildsemi.com),
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|                 Microchip (www.microchip.com),
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|                 Philips (www.semiconductor.philips.com),
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|                 Rohm (www.rohm.com),
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|                 ST (www.st.com),
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|                 Xicor (www.xicor.com),
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|                 and others.
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| 
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|         ========= ============= ============================================
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|         Chip      Size (bits)   Address
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|         ========= ============= ============================================
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|         24C01     1K            0x50 (shadows at 0x51 - 0x57)
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|         24C01A    1K            0x50 - 0x57 (Typical device on DIMMs)
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|         24C02     2K            0x50 - 0x57
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|         24C04     4K            0x50, 0x52, 0x54, 0x56
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|                                 (additional data at 0x51, 0x53, 0x55, 0x57)
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|         24C08     8K            0x50, 0x54 (additional data at 0x51, 0x52,
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|                                 0x53, 0x55, 0x56, 0x57)
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|         24C16     16K           0x50 (additional data at 0x51 - 0x57)
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|         Sony      2K            0x57
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| 
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|         Atmel     34C02B  2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         Catalyst  34FC02  2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         Catalyst  34RC02  2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         Fairchild 34W02   2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         Microchip 24AA52  2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         ST        M34C02  2K    0x50 - 0x57, SW write protect at 0x30-37
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|         ========= ============= ============================================
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| 
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| 
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| Authors:
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|         - Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
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|         - Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
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|         - Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
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|         - Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
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|         - IBM Corp.
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| 
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| Description
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| -----------
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| 
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| This is a simple EEPROM module meant to enable reading the first 256 bytes
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| of an EEPROM (on a SDRAM DIMM for example). However, it will access serial
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| EEPROMs on any I2C adapter. The supported devices are generically called
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| 24Cxx, and are listed above; however the numbering for these
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| industry-standard devices may vary by manufacturer.
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| 
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| This module was a programming exercise to get used to the new project
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| organization laid out by Frodo, but it should be at least completely
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| effective for decoding the contents of EEPROMs on DIMMs.
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| 
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| DIMMS will typically contain a 24C01A or 24C02, or the 34C02 variants.
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| The other devices will not be found on a DIMM because they respond to more
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| than one address.
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| 
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| DDC Monitors may contain any device. Often a 24C01, which responds to all 8
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| addresses, is found.
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| 
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| Recent Sony Vaio laptops have an EEPROM at 0x57. We couldn't get the
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| specification, so it is guess work and far from being complete.
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| 
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| The Microchip 24AA52/24LCS52, ST M34C02, and others support an additional
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| software write protect register at 0x30 - 0x37 (0x20 less than the memory
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| location). The chip responds to "write quick" detection at this address but
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| does not respond to byte reads. If this register is present, the lower 128
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| bytes of the memory array are not write protected. Any byte data write to
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| this address will write protect the memory array permanently, and the
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| device will no longer respond at the 0x30-37 address. The eeprom driver
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| does not support this register.
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| 
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| Lacking functionality
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| ---------------------
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| 
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| * Full support for larger devices (24C04, 24C08, 24C16). These are not
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|   typically found on a PC. These devices will appear as separate devices at
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|   multiple addresses.
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| 
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| * Support for really large devices (24C32, 24C64, 24C128, 24C256, 24C512).
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|   These devices require two-byte address fields and are not supported.
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| 
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| * Enable Writing. Again, no technical reason why not, but making it easy
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|   to change the contents of the EEPROMs (on DIMMs anyway) also makes it easy
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|   to disable the DIMMs (potentially preventing the computer from booting)
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|   until the values are restored somehow.
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| 
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| Use
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| ---
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| 
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| After inserting the module (and any other required SMBus/i2c modules), you
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| should have some EEPROM directories in ``/sys/bus/i2c/devices/*`` of names such
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| as "0-0050". Inside each of these is a series of files, the eeprom file
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| contains the binary data from EEPROM.
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