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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-i2c: add the device specification
On 2020/10/24 0:00, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 02:51:25PM +0800, Jie Deng wrote:+ +The driver queues requests to the virtqueues, and they are used by the +device. The request is the representation of one segment of an I2C +transaction. Each request is of form: + +\begin{lstlisting} +struct virtio_i2c_req { + le16 addr; + le16 flags; + le16 len; + u8 buf[]; + u8 status; +}; +\end{lstlisting} + +The \field{addr} is the address of the I2C slave device. + +The first bit of \field{flags} indicates whether it is a read or write request. +It means a read request if the first bit of \field{flags} is set, otherwise +it is a write request. The rest bits of \field{flags} are reserved.So how does one creates a multi-segment transaction then?
The I2C doesn't support segments numbering and sorting.So if one creates a multi-segment transaction, then he/she should keep the segments in order.
Thanks.
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