Commit 57a54b20 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] I2C: Documentation for i2c-parport

At least, the i2c-parport gets some documentation. I heard several
persons complaining that there was no sample electronics schema for
building their own i2c-over-parallel-port, so I did just that, with the
help of Sylvain Munaut. The documentation also includes the list of
supported adapters, and a short comparison with other drivers using the
parallel port to drive an i2c bus. At the end of the document I included
an updated version of the i2c-velleman doc file (which I then deleted).

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr dot org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
parent 1eaad3da
==================
i2c-parport driver
==================
2004-07-06, Jean Delvare
This is a unified driver for several i2c-over-parallel-port adapters,
such as the ones made by Philips, Velleman or ELV. This driver is
meant as a replacement for the older, individual drivers:
* i2c-philips-par
* i2c-elv
* i2c-velleman
* video/i2c-parport (NOT the same as this one, dedicated to home brew
teletext adapters)
It currently supports the following devices:
* Philips adapter
* home brew teletext adapter
* Velleman K8000 adapter
* ELV adapter
* Analog Devices evaluation boards (ADM1025, ADM1030, ADM1031, ADM1032)
These devices use different pinout configurations, so you have to tell
the driver what you have, using the type module parameter. There is no
way to autodetect the devices. Support for different pinout configurations
can be easily added when needed.
Building your own adapter
-------------------------
If you want to build you own i2c-over-parallel-port adapter, here is
a sample electronics schema (credits go to Sylvain Munaut):
Device PC
Side ___________________Vdd (+) Side
| | |
--- --- ---
| | | | | |
|R| |R| |R|
| | | | | |
--- --- ---
| | |
| | /| |
SCL ----------x--------o |-----------x------------------- pin 2
| \| | |
| | |
| |\ | |
SDA ----------x----x---| o---x--------------------------- pin 13
| |/ |
| |
| /| |
---------o |----------------x-------------- pin 3
\| | |
| |
--- ---
| | | |
|R| |R|
| | | |
--- ---
| |
### ###
GND GND
Remarks:
- This is the exact pinout and electronics used on the Analog Devices
evaluation boards.
/|
- All inverters -o |- must be 74HC05, they must be open collector output.
\|
- All resitors are 10k.
- Pins 18-25 of the parallel port connected to GND.
- Pins 4-9 (D2-D7) could be used as VDD is the driver drives them high.
The ADM1032 evaluation board uses D4-D7. Beware that the amount of
current you can draw from the parallel port is limited. Also note that
all connected lines MUST BE driven at the same state, else you'll short
circuit the output buffers! So plugging the I2C adapter after loading
the i2c-parport module might be a good safety since data line state
prior to init may be unknown.
- This is 5V!
- Obviously you cannot read SCL (so it's not really standard-compliant).
Pretty easy to add, just copy the SDA part and use another input pin.
That would give (ELV compatible pinout):
Device PC
Side ______________________________Vdd (+) Side
| | | |
--- --- --- ---
| | | | | | | |
|R| |R| |R| |R|
| | | | | | | |
--- --- --- ---
| | | |
| | |\ | |
SCL ----------x--------x--| o---x------------------------ pin 15
| | |/ |
| | |
| | /| |
| ---o |-------------x-------------- pin 2
| \| | |
| | |
| | |
| |\ | |
SDA ---------------x---x--| o--------x------------------- pin 10
| |/ |
| |
| /| |
---o |------------------x--------- pin 3
\| | |
| |
--- ---
| | | |
|R| |R|
| | | |
--- ---
| |
### ###
GND GND
If possible, you should use the same pinout configuration as existing
adapters do, so you won't even have to change the code.
Similar (but different) drivers
-------------------------------
This driver is NOT the same as the i2c-pport driver found in the i2c package.
The i2c-pport driver makes use of modern parallel port features so that
you don't need additional electronics. It has other restrictions however, and
was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet).
This driver is also NOT the same as the i2c-pcf-epp driver found in the
lm_sensors package. The i2c-pcf-epp driver doesn't use the parallel port
as an I2C bus directly. Instead, it uses it to control an external I2C bus
master. That driver was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet) either.
Legacy documentation for Velleman adapter
-----------------------------------------
Useful links:
Velleman http://www.velleman.be/
Velleman K8000 Howto http://howto.htlw16.ac.at/k8000-howto.html
The project has lead to new libs for the Velleman K8000 and K8005:
LIBK8000 v1.99.1 and LIBK8005 v0.21
With these libs, you can control the K8000 interface card and the K8005
stepper motor card with the simple commands which are in the original
Velleman software, like SetIOchannel, ReadADchannel, SendStepCCWFull and
many more, using /dev/velleman.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8000.htm
http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8005.htm
http://struyve.mine.nu:8080/index.php?block=k8000
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libk8005/
i2c-velleman driver
-------------------
This is a driver for i2c-hw access for Velleman K8000 and other adapters.
Useful links
------------
Velleman:
http://www.velleman.be/
Velleman K8000 Howto:
http://howto.htlw16.ac.at/k8000-howto.html
K8000 and K8005 libraries
-------------------------
The project has lead to new libs for the Velleman K8000 and K8005:
LIBK8000 v1.99.1 and LIBK8005 v0.21
With these libs, you can control the K8000 interface card and the K8005
stepper motor card with the simple commands which are in the original
Velleman software, like SetIOchannel, ReadADchannel, SendStepCCWFull and
many more, using /dev/velleman.
The libs can be found on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/k8000/files/linux/
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