Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHEA-2012:0814 - new package: i2c-tools

Synopsis

new package: i2c-tools

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new i2c-tools package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The i2c-tools package contains a set of I2C tools for Linux: a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level SMBus access helpers, EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) decoding scripts, EEPROM programming tools, and a python module for SMBus access.

Note: EEPROM decoding scripts can render your system unusable. Make sure to use these tools wisely.

This enhancement update adds the i2c-tools package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (BZ#773267)

All users who require i2c-tools should install this new package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• i2c-tools-3.1.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
• i2c-tools-3.1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• i2c-tools-eepromer-3.1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• i2c-tools-debuginfo-3.1.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
• i2c-tools-3.1.0-1.el6.src.rpm
• i2c-tools-debuginfo-3.1.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• i2c-tools-debuginfo-3.1.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
• i2c-tools-eepromer-3.1.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
• i2c-tools-3.1.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
• i2c-tools-eepromer-3.1.0-1.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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