It has been quite a journey and I am making progress at snail's pace. While the SDK is shipped with a lot of examples, it is somewhat difficult to find requisite information.
I wanted to perform a scan of the I2C bus to detect devices. I got it working but I was not able to get the driver working.
The I2C bus scanner didn't work either. It turns out that the I2C devices needed a reset.

Onward to integrating the driver again.