Does CoreI2C driver support repeated start condition?

[rary21]

I'm using CoreI2C in fabric with i2c-microchip-corei2c.c driver.
I need to issue repeated start condition to read a register from a device which only accepts repeated start condition for read.

I tried with smbus2 but the I2C signal has stop/start condition between write and read frame instead of repeated start condition.
https://pypi.org/project/smbus2/

from smbus2 import SMBus, i2c_msg

# Single transaction writing two bytes then read two at address 80
write = i2c_msg.write(80, [40, 50])
read = i2c_msg.read(80, 2)
with SMBus(1) as bus:
    bus.i2c_rdwr(write, read)

Does CoreI2C driver support repeated start condition?