Re: [PATCH 0/4] Mac IOP driver fixes

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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Brad Boyer wrote:

I have a list of structures and one of them appears to be the bypass 
command. The outbound message is 3 bytes (the command code:4, a byte for 
a flag with 0 meaning off and 1 meaning on, and an ID byte). The reply 
is a byte of error (0 is success) followed by extra bytes depending on 
the error value.

One of the listed error values is "driver in use", so it's possible it 
will reject the request. We are just taking advantage of the existing 
drivers, so probably both the SWIM and ADB drivers are still running on 
the IOP.

It looks like shutting down a driver is another command. The command 
byte for that is 2, and the second byte is which driver to stop (0/1). 
I'm not sure if there's a way to restart the driver after that other 
than reloading everything.


I think we need to be able to restart the IOP's internal ADB driver. 
Otherwise it's impossible to have ADB input resume when the floppy drives 
go idle for a while or when the swim module exits.

The alternative is to revive swip_iop.c, and the downside there is that 
the block layer API has completely changed, meaning that the driver needs 
a rewrite on the block layer side, as well as needing more work on the IOP 
protocol side.



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