Yes! :)
There is still a room for improvement though -- it would be better to fix
IDE core to set PIO0 before probing devices for all host controllers.
Moreover it seems that doing it this way would allow us to remove ->init_hwif
method from this driver and do all necessary setup in ep93xx_ide_probe()
(this controller is a single port one so theoretically there shouldn't be
a need for having per-port ->init_hwif implementation).
So after all this discussion ;-) , my driver will have no 'init_hwif'
method, and the setup code will be on 'ep93xx_ide_probe', which will
configure entirely the IDE host controller.
Moreover, this initial configuration will setup the controller to work
at PIO Mode 0. Later on, the 'set_pio_mode' method will be called and
the controller will configure itself according to the PIO mode reported
by the IDE core.
Can I proceed this way?
There's just only one issue; normally, I would setup the specific
timings (t0, t1, t2, t2i, etc) in the 'pio_set_mode' hook. However, if
you look further in the driver, those timings aren't defined through a
memory controller but instead manually enforced by 'ndelay' calls (arghhh).
This means that in my low-level procedures for reading and writing, I
need to have access to the timings (or the struct ide_timing)
corresponding to the PIO mode selected, in order to use the correct delays.
My question is: which is the best way to accomplish this? Declaring a
global struct ide_timing variable pointer that always holds the correct
ide_timing struct to the selected PIO mode? Or should I always check (in
some manner) what is the current PIO mode and then select the adequate
delays?
I think that the setting variable pointer in ->set_pio_mode method would
work best. Seems like the existing drive_data field of ide_drive_t is well
suited for this purpose (however it may be worth to convert it to 'void *'
type while we are it).
Did you mean 'drive_data' field, or 'driver_data' field?
'drive_data' field is an unsigned int value; I guess you meant
'driver_data' field as it is a (void *) field, so I can define it as a
pointer to the correct 'struct ide_timing'.
Regards,
João
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