ds3231 suddenly failing

[Emmanuel Vadot]

 Yes I realised that after reading your mail :)

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:27:08 -0700
Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 15:56 +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >  Hi,
> > 
> >  0xd0 is the 7-bit address while 0x1a0 is the 8-bits address so
> > nothing is wrong here.
> > 
> 
> No, that's incorrect.  0x1a0 is not a valid i2c address.  The address
> of a Maxim DS3231 is 0b1101000x; 0xd0 when expressing addresses as 8
> -bit, or 0x68 when expressing them as 7-bit.
> 
> -- Ian
> 
> >  i2c -s doesn't show anything because rpi only support I2C_RDRW
> > ioctl.
> >  If you want to confirm that your device is ok you can patch i2c(8)
> > with this diff : 
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198817
> >  You do not need to recompile the kernel, just i2c(8).
> > 
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:40:24 +0200
> > Jukka Ukkonen <jau789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Previously my RPI2 had no problems with ds3231 RTC.
> > > Now 11.0-CURRENT r295206 shows these during boot...
> > > 
> > > ds32310: <Maxim DS3231 RTC> at addr 0x1a0 on iicbus1
> > > ds32310: cannot read from RTC.
> > > 
> > > Trying sysctl dev.ds3231 gives me this...
> > > 
> > > dev.ds3231.0.%parent: iicbus1
> > > dev.ds3231.0.%pnpinfo: name=rtc compat=maxim,ds3231
> > > dev.ds3231.0.%location: addr=0x1a0
> > > dev.ds3231.0.%driver: ds3231
> > > dev.ds3231.0.%desc: Maxim DS3231 RTC
> > > dev.ds3231.%parent:
> > > 
> > > Trying "i2c -s" does not show anything on either
> > > /dev/iic0 or /dev/iic1.
> > > 
> > > AFAIK I have not changed anything in the build.
> > > 
> > > Checking the contents of rpi2.dtb says this about
> > > the clock chip...
> > > 
> > >                         rtc {
> > >                                 compatible = "maxim,ds3231";
> > >                                 reg = <0xd0>;
> > >                         };
> > > 
> > > I guess that the alert "cannot read from RTC." is
> > > due to the fact that "addr 0x1a0" does not match
> > > "reg = <0xd0>;" in the DTB. It just does not dawn
> > > to me where the kernel found the alternate value.
> > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > --jau
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-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>