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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/16] spi: bcm63xx-hsspi: Add prepend feature support
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On 01/06/2023 02:00 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:08:03PM -0800, William Zhang wrote:
>> Multiple transfers within a SPI message may be combined into one
>> transfer to the controller using its prepend feature. A SPI message is
>> prependable only if the following are all true:
>> * One or more half duplex write transfer
>> * Optional full duplex read/write at the end
>> * No delay and cs_change between transfers
>
> There is nothing driver specific here, this should be implemented in the
> core - we have existing logic to rewrite messages to match driver
> constraints, this could be added there possibly with flags to allow
> drivers to disable or enable the merging if they've got special
> requirements.
>
My understanding of combining the spi transfer in the core level does
not quite work out to our controller. For example, for a spi message
with three transfers, tx, tx and rx. We can possibly combine them in
single duplex tx/rx transfer in the core. But this will be treated as
duplex transaction in our controller level which require tx and rx data
happens at the same time. Obviously this won't work when rx depends on
tx happening first. We can not differentiate this combined duplex
transfer from the true duplex transfer unless there is some flag to
indicate that. Also there is limit of max tx length as the prepend
buffer so maybe another parameter. And another reason to be done in the
driver level is this prepend mode has dependency on dummy cs workaround
which is driver level parameter currently. I am not sure how practical
and useful this is to factor them out to the core level? Maybe I didn't
fully understand your comments and appreciate if you can elaborate or
point me to the related core code.
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