Omega2(+) I2C bus is not open drain

György Farkas

Omega2(+) FW: 0.1.10-b160 I2C bus is not open drain because Onion's software engineer / coder set the 31st bit of SM0CTL0 register to '1' ( I think in the omega2-bootloader).
I'm afraid it's a fairly strange 'unique' I2C bus configuration in the ~~embedded / IoT~~ world since the SoC has a dedicated, working HW I2C.

MediaTek MT7688 Datasheet Version: 1.4 Release date: 15th April 2016
I2C Base address: (0x10000900)
0x10000940 SM0CTL0 Serial interface master 0 control 0 register

bit 31 SM0_ODRAIN Open-drain output configuration
0: When SIF output is logic 1, the output is pulled high by outer devices.
SIF output is open-drained.
1: When SIF output is logic 1, the output is pulled high by SIF master 0.

root@99A5:~# devmem 0x10000940
0x8190800E # ie. 1000 0001 1001 0000 1000 0000 0000 1110

#--------------------------------------------------------------
# my workaround
#

root@99A5:~# cat /etc/rc.local
# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

devmem 0x10000940 32 0x0190800E
exit 0

#--------------------------------------------------------------

root@99A5:~# devmem 0x10000940
0x0190800E # ie. 0000 0001 1001 0000 1000 0000 0000 1110

Dear Onion hardware @administrators please correct me if I am wrong.

György Farkas

How to test it with a multimeter?

When the Omega2(+)'s I2C master is in idle state and there aren't any I2C slave devices connected to the bus (ie. no I2C communication) the bus is free - both SDA and SCL lines are HIGH.

Do measure the voltage of the SDA pin / line with a multimeter (positive wire to SDA, negative to GND).
Let's say it is about +3.2V.
Connect a 4.7kOhm resistor between the SDA pin and GND.

I2C is not open drain
if the measured voltage is almost same than before (about +3.2V)
I2C is open drain (and the line has a 4.7kOhm pull-up resistor under the shield)
if the measured voltage is about half than before (about +1.6V)

György Farkas

It's not open drain by default - but the situation is not so simple - and fairly interesting.
I'll try to describe the details in the near future...

peanut

Do you have any other details to share?