Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Feb 2015 10:10:28 -0800 | From | Ray Jui <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] i2c: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc I2C Driver |
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On 2/8/2015 3:03 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > >>> Is it really a HW limitation? Could the driver later be extended to >>> continue filling the FIFO if a certain threshold is reached? >>> >> >> Will return -EOPNOTSUPP. This really depends on whether or not we expect >> one sequence of START + SLV ADDR + DATA + STOP per i2c message. I can >> later extend the driver to refill/re-drain the FIFO for data size >= 64 >> bytes, if one sequence of SATRT...STOP per message is not a requirement. > > It is important to have the terminology clear here: One transfer can > consist of multiple messages. The transfer uses START/STOP at the > beginning/end, the messages within the transfer only REPEATED_START. > Okay. Let me check with our ASIC engineer to see if there's a way to get the driver extended to support the case when data size is larger than the FIFO size. From my understanding based on the data sheet I have, I don't think that can be done with this controller. But if the ASIC engineers tells me the opposite, I'll add it as a separate patch later.
Thanks,
Ray
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