I2C device getting detected in kernel but not in u-boot stage

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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Hi Nvidia team,

I am using I2C to GPIO expander in i2c bus 7(as per kernel).When i check i2c probe in u-boot stage i am not able to detect the same device.

Attaching the logs taken after kernel bootup and uboot stage,

U-boot stage:
Tegra186 (P3636-0001) # i2c dev 6
Setting bus to 6
Tegra186 (P3636-0001) # i2c probe
Valid chip addresses: 18 50

After Kernel bootup:

root@tegra-ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# i2cdetect -r -y 7
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: – – – – – – – – – – – – –
10: – – – – – – – – UU – – – – – – –
20: – – UU – – – – – – – – – – – – –
30: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
40: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
50: 50 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
60: – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
70: UU – – – – – – –

Can you please let me know what can be the issue here?

Thanks

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hello prasanth.gunaseelan,

may I know what’s the actual use-case for detecting that during u-boot?

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Hi Jerry,

We are connecting power enable pins for modem to this device(IO expander) and controlling it in u-boot stage to boot the modem before TX2 boots up.

So we need to access the device in the u-boot stage.

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Hi jerry,

Can you let me know if there is any update on this issue?

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Hi Jerry,

Can you please give us an update on the issue?

Thanks

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TCA6424’s power comes from vcc_1v8.
Please confirm the confirm TCA6424’s power at u-boot stage.

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Hi kayccc,

We are getting vcc_1v8 and it is out of reset at the uboot stage.

Still it is not getting detected.

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Hi kayccc,

Any update on the observation we saw?

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hello prasanth.gunaseelan,

could you please check waveform via oscilloscope,
please connect TCA6424 {sda, scl} pins to oscilloscope to check if ACK is send by TCA6424.
thanks

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There is no update from you for a period, assuming this is not an issue any more.
Hence we are closing this topic. If need further support, please open a new one.
Thanks

Hi prasanth.gunaseelan,

Any update/result can be shared?

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