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2 Kernel driver i2c-parport
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5 Author: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
7 This is a unified driver for several i2c-over-parallel-port adapters,
8 such as the ones made by Philips, Velleman or ELV. This driver is
9 meant as a replacement for the older, individual drivers:
15 (NOT the same as this one, dedicated to home brew teletext adapters)
17 It currently supports the following devices:
19 * (type=0) Philips adapter
20 * (type=1) home brew teletext adapter
21 * (type=2) Velleman K8000 adapter
22 * (type=3) ELV adapter
23 * (type=4) Analog Devices ADM1032 evaluation board
24 * (type=5) Analog Devices evaluation boards: ADM1025, ADM1030, ADM1031
25 * (type=6) Barco LPT->DVI (K5800236) adapter
26 * (type=7) One For All JP1 parallel port adapter
29 These devices use different pinout configurations, so you have to tell
30 the driver what you have, using the type module parameter. There is no
31 way to autodetect the devices. Support for different pinout configurations
32 can be easily added when needed.
34 Earlier kernels defaulted to type=0 (Philips). But now, if the type
35 parameter is missing, the driver will simply fail to initialize.
37 SMBus alert support is available on adapters which have this line properly
38 connected to the parallel port's interrupt pin.
41 Building your own adapter
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44 If you want to build you own i2c-over-parallel-port adapter, here is
45 a sample electronics schema (credits go to Sylvain Munaut)::
48 Side ___________________Vdd (+) Side
57 SCL ----------x--------o |-----------x------------------- pin 2
61 SDA ----------x----x---| o---x--------------------------- pin 13
65 ---------o |----------------x-------------- pin 3
78 - This is the exact pinout and electronics used on the Analog Devices
86 must be 74HC05, they must be open collector output.
87 - All resitors are 10k.
88 - Pins 18-25 of the parallel port connected to GND.
89 - Pins 4-9 (D2-D7) could be used as VDD is the driver drives them high.
90 The ADM1032 evaluation board uses D4-D7. Beware that the amount of
91 current you can draw from the parallel port is limited. Also note that
92 all connected lines MUST BE driven at the same state, else you'll short
93 circuit the output buffers! So plugging the I2C adapter after loading
94 the i2c-parport module might be a good safety since data line state
95 prior to init may be unknown.
97 - Obviously you cannot read SCL (so it's not really standard-compliant).
98 Pretty easy to add, just copy the SDA part and use another input pin.
99 That would give (ELV compatible pinout)::
103 Side ______________________________Vdd (+) Side
112 SCL ----------x--------x--| o---x------------------------ pin 15
116 | ---o |-------------x-------------- pin 2
121 SDA ---------------x---x--| o--------x------------------- pin 10
125 ---o |------------------x--------- pin 3
138 If possible, you should use the same pinout configuration as existing
139 adapters do, so you won't even have to change the code.
142 Similar (but different) drivers
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145 This driver is NOT the same as the i2c-pport driver found in the i2c
146 package. The i2c-pport driver makes use of modern parallel port features so
147 that you don't need additional electronics. It has other restrictions
148 however, and was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet).
150 This driver is also NOT the same as the i2c-pcf-epp driver found in the
151 lm_sensors package. The i2c-pcf-epp driver doesn't use the parallel port as
152 an I2C bus directly. Instead, it uses it to control an external I2C bus
153 master. That driver was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet) either.
156 Legacy documentation for Velleman adapter
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161 - Velleman http://www.velleman.be/
162 - Velleman K8000 Howto http://howto.htlw16.ac.at/k8000-howto.html
164 The project has lead to new libs for the Velleman K8000 and K8005:
166 LIBK8000 v1.99.1 and LIBK8005 v0.21
168 With these libs, you can control the K8000 interface card and the K8005
169 stepper motor card with the simple commands which are in the original
170 Velleman software, like SetIOchannel, ReadADchannel, SendStepCCWFull and
171 many more, using /dev/velleman.
173 - http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8000.htm
174 - http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8005.htm
175 - http://struyve.mine.nu:8080/index.php?block=k8000
176 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/libk8005/
179 One For All JP1 parallel port adapter
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182 The JP1 project revolves around a set of remote controls which expose
183 the I2C bus their internal configuration EEPROM lives on via a 6 pin
184 jumper in the battery compartment. More details can be found at:
186 http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/
188 Details of the simple parallel port hardware can be found at:
190 http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/hardware.shtml