[Fx30] Reading EEPROM of the expansion card

IoT Gateways FX30
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Hello,

I am making use of several expansion cards on my system. I would like my application (plain C, outside Legato) to know what is the expansion card inserted.

Looking at “/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/” I see several elements which seems to be I2C devices… but which one is the EEPROM if the expansion card? This list does not change if I insert or not an expansion card.

Using IOT_Detect (GPIO25) I can see if there is a card connected or not.

How can I read the content (from Linux terminal) of the EEPROM to get information on the expansion card connected?
I have installed “i2c-tools” but it doesn’t help.

A simple read example using C or Python or Shell would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to help, regards, Christian.

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Hi Christian,
You can determine which device the EEPROM is by checking the name of the specific device.

For example,
cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0020/name

will output:
tca6416

which is the GPIO expander chip.

The I2C devices are present on the IOT card what’s additional to:
0-001a
0-0022
0-0048
0-0020
0-003a

BR,
Chris

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Hello Chris,

Thanks for the answer but I do not observe new elements appearing in the /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0 folder when I connect an expansion card… even after a power cycle.

I have tested with all expansion cards I have: Renfell GPIO / Renfell RS485 / Talon Ethernet / Energiya Converter.

I am able to see the I2C address of the EEPROM in 0x53 (for all except the Renfell GPIO Card) using “i2cdetect -y -r 0”.

As suggested in the “5.2.2.1 Recommended EEPROM Schematic” of the " IoT Expansion Card Design Specification (Rev8) " of “http://mangoh.io” site, I see that by changing the output value to 1 of the CARD_DETECT (setting the expansion card to ACTIVE) The EEPROM address moves to 0x52.

Using the I2C dump command “i2cdump -y 0 0x52 c 0”, I can see the content of the EEPROM of Energiya Converter Expansion card, but I cannot see the EEPROM content of the other expansion cards.

I am a bit confused with this EEPROM reading and expansion card name that should appear in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0 but does not. Could you check what’s going on.

Thanks, Christian.

P.S.: I have tested with several expansion cards and several Fx30 (including one with the reference firmware SWI9X15Y_07.11.22.00 r33729 CARMD-EV-FRMWR1 2017/01/11 18:04:06)

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Hi Christian,
Sorry, I tried with an IOT card I have here and you’re right, I don’t see the card’s EEPROM in /sys/devices/i2c-0 either.

I’m not familiar with the Renfell cards, are you certain the GPIO card has an EEPROM? Have you consulted with them?

I tried a Talon ethernet card but I was only able to read all 0xFF’s.

BR,
Chris

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Hello Chris,

Yes, all cards I have up to now have an EEPROM… It’s a good thing to be able to differentiate the expansion card… if we can read them. Maybe is there something I am doing wrong… please keep me updated if you manage to have it working.

Regards, Christian.