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Simone 2c7675a104 tools: measure the ENE read-back question instead of inferring it
P2 asked whether the ENE at 0x27 has readable state. The answer had been
reached twice by elimination, and the last link in that chain was a comment
in a third party's patched OpenRGB detector, not a measurement of ours.

probe-ene-receive-byte.sh runs the experiment the driver made possible on
2026-07-27, when PNTR_SEL (BIT(18)) gave us a bare Receive Byte: a read with
no command byte on the wire cannot return a transform of a register that was
never sent. It does, however, return the last command byte the chip received
— 12/12 on both channels — so the value is still ours, not the device's. A
Receive Byte taken from 0x31 after addressing 0x27 answers 0xff instead of
the echo, which places the latch in the device and not in the iMC engine;
empty addresses NACK, so the transaction is real.

Everything here is read-only: Receive Byte and Read Byte Data at 0x27, SPD
reads through ee1004 sysfs, and the four SPD serials compared before and
after every run.

Two engine behaviours the script has to work around, both measured:
the first transaction on a channel answers with a stale value (hence the
discarded warm-up read), and a read following a successful one usually
NACKs, which one retry always clears — the P1 policy, confirmed.

lore-thread-check.py is unrelated to the probe but shares the same motive:
lore and patchwork now sit behind an Anubis bot check, so a shell cannot
tell "not published" from "not allowed to look". The NNTP mirror can.
2026-08-10 18:49:56 +02:00

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== P2 Receive Byte probe at 0x27 — 2026-08-10T18:29:29+02:00
driver: /lib/modules/7.0.0-28-generic/updates/dkms/i2c-imc-skylake.ko.zst
rounds per channel: 8
-- SPD baseline
ch0.dimm0=50E4333A
ch0.dimm1=1FE43236
ch1.dimm0=50E434BA
ch1.dimm1=1EE433B5
-- ch0 (i2c-1) — receive_byte across addresses
0x27 0xe1 0xe1 0xe1
0x30 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x31 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x34 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x35 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x36 ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy
0x37 ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy
0x2a NACK NACK NACK
0x2b NACK NACK NACK
-- ch1 (i2c-2) — receive_byte across addresses
0x27 0xe1 0xe1 0xe1
0x30 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x31 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x34 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x35 0xff 0xff 0xff
0x36 ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x36: Device or resource busy
0x37 ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy ERR:Error: Could not set address to 0x37: Device or resource busy
0x2a NACK NACK NACK
0x2b NACK NACK NACK
-- SPD after
ch0.dimm0=50E4333A
ch0.dimm1=1FE43236
ch1.dimm0=50E434BA
ch1.dimm1=1EE433B5
SPD integrity: OK (4/4 serials unchanged)