RE: OMAP3430: MUSB host and hot-plugging

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>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:55 AM
>On Thursday 20 March 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> Could it be some
>> problem in the ULPI support for omap3 that's preventing musb to wake up
>> and switch to host role ?
>
>Your theory is as good as mine; I don't have that hardware.
>
>I was just pointing out that this specific area has always
>been a significant PITA for the MUSB silicon ... I'm not the
>only developer who's ended up losing weeks of time chasing
>(undocumented) bogosity in the area of host-side startup.
>
>The thing is that making it "switch to host role" is the
>very black magic that regularly misbehaved.  ISTR there was
>a chicken/egg thing going on:  it couldn't know it needed to
>switch to "host role" unless the oddball Mentor "session"
>was already active, but it couldn't be activated unless you
>somehow knew it should be in host role...

The right way then to debug would be to do an LA probe of ULPI signals on re-attach.
To get around this problem, I have heard of implementations having a separate GPIO implemented to wakeup the system on cable attaches. Don't remember which implementation though.
I will see if I get time to work on this and will keep posted.

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