Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] spi: sun6i: restrict transfer length in PIO-mode | From | Sergey Suloev <> | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:26:23 +0300 |
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On 04/09/2018 12:27 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:48:23PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote: >> On 04/06/2018 10:34 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:44:16PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote: >>>> On 04/05/2018 04:17 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 12:59:35PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote: >>>>>> On 04/05/2018 12:19 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote: >>>>>>> The point of that patch was precisely to allow to send more data than >>>>>>> the FIFO. You're breaking that behaviour without any justification, >>>>>>> and this is not ok. >>>>>> I am sorry, but you can't. That's a hardware limitation. >>>>> Are you positive about that? Normally you can add things to hardware >>>>> FIFOs while they're being drained so so long as you can keep data >>>>> flowing in at least as fast as it's being consumed. >>>> Well, normally yes, but this is not the case with the hardware that I own. >>>> My a20 (BPiM1+) and a31 (BPiM2) boards behaves differently. With a transfer >>>> larger than FIFO then TC interrupt never happens. >>> Because you're not supposed to have a transfer larger than the FIFO, >>> but to have to setup at first a transfer the size of the FIFO, and >>> then when it's (or starts to be) depleted, fill it up again. >> According to what you said the driver must implement >> "transfer_one_message" instead of "transfer_one" > I'm not sure what makes you think that I said that. > > Maxime > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
Because current implementation tries to send more than FIFO-depth of data in a single call to "transfer_one" which is wrong.
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