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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+================================
+Linux I2C slave testunit backend
+================================
+
+by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2020
+
+This backend can be used to trigger test cases for I2C bus masters which
+require a remote device with certain capabilities (and which are usually not so
+easy to obtain). Examples include multi-master testing, and SMBus Host Notify
+testing. For some tests, the I2C slave controller must be able to switch
+between master and slave mode because it needs to send data, too.
+
+Note that this is a device for testing and debugging. It should not be enabled
+in a production build. And while there is some versioning and we try hard to
+keep backward compatibility, there is no stable ABI guaranteed!
+
+Instantiating the device is regular. Example for bus 0, address 0x30:
+
+# echo "slave-testunit 0x1030" > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
+
+After that, you will have a write-only device listening. Reads will just return
+an 8-bit version number of the testunit. When writing, the device consists of 4
+8-bit registers and, except for some "partial" commands, all registers must be
+written to start a testcase, i.e. you usually write 4 bytes to the device. The
+registers are:
+
+0x00 CMD - which test to trigger
+0x01 DATAL - configuration byte 1 for the test
+0x02 DATAH - configuration byte 2 for the test
+0x03 DELAY - delay in n * 10ms until test is started
+
+Using 'i2cset' from the i2c-tools package, the generic command looks like:
+
+# i2cset -y <bus_num> <testunit_address> <CMD> <DATAL> <DATAH> <DELAY> i
+
+DELAY is a generic parameter which will delay the execution of the test in CMD.
+While a command is running (including the delay), new commands will not be
+acknowledged. You need to wait until the old one is completed.
+
+The commands are described in the following section. An invalid command will
+result in the transfer not being acknowledged.
+
+Commands
+--------
+
+0x00 NOOP (reserved for future use)
+
+0x01 READ_BYTES (also needs master mode)
+ DATAL - address to read data from (lower 7 bits, highest bit currently unused)
+ DATAH - number of bytes to read
+
+This is useful to test if your bus master driver is handling multi-master
+correctly. You can trigger the testunit to read bytes from another device on
+the bus. If the bus master under test also wants to access the bus at the same
+time, the bus will be busy. Example to read 128 bytes from device 0x50 after
+50ms of delay:
+
+# i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x01 0x50 0x80 0x05 i
+
+0x02 SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY (also needs master mode)
+ DATAL - low byte of the status word to send
+ DATAH - high byte of the status word to send
+
+This test will send an SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY message to the host. Note that the
+status word is currently ignored in the Linux Kernel. Example to send a
+notification after 10ms:
+
+# i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x02 0x42 0x64 0x01 i
+
+0x03 SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL (partial command)
+ DATAL - must be '1', i.e. one further byte will be written
+ DATAH - number of bytes to be sent back
+ DELAY - not applicable, partial command!
+
+This test will respond to a block process call as defined by the SMBus
+specification. The one data byte written specifies how many bytes will be sent
+back in the following read transfer. Note that in this read transfer, the
+testunit will prefix the length of the bytes to follow. So, if your host bus
+driver emulates SMBus calls like the majority does, it needs to support the
+I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag of an i2c_msg. This is a good testcase for it. The returned
+data consists of the length first, and then of an array of bytes from length-1
+to 0. Here is an example which emulates i2c_smbus_block_process_call() using
+i2ctransfer (you need i2c-tools v4.2 or later):
+
+# i2ctransfer -y 0 w3@0x30 0x03 0x01 0x10 r?
+0x10 0x0f 0x0e 0x0d 0x0c 0x0b 0x0a 0x09 0x08 0x07 0x06 0x05 0x04 0x03 0x02 0x01 0x00