Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] ARM: dts: aspeed: ventura2: Add Meta ventura2 BMC

Kyle Hsieh <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:14:20 +0800

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The EEPROM is physically isolated by a hardware I2C multiplexer.
> > By default, the mux connects the EEPROM directly to the Marvell switch
> > for its routine operation and configuration loading. The BMC's I2C bus is
> > physically disconnected from the EEPROM during this time.
>
> I think some comments would be good. It was not clear to my how this
> works.
>
>         Andrew
Hi Andrew,

Understood. I will add a detailed comment block explaining this hardware I2C
isolation and the out-of-band update mechanism above the EEPROM node in v8.

Thanks for the review!

Best regards,
Kyle Hsieh