Hello Nishant, Comments inlined, Regards Moiz Sonasath -----Original Message----- From: Menon, Nishanth Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:03 PM To: Sonasath, Moiz Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kamat, Nishant; Paul Walmsley; Pandita, Vikram Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] [OMAP:I2C]OMAP3430 Silicon Errata 1.153 Sonasath, Moiz had written, on 07/15/2009 05:37 PM, the following: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Menon, Nishanth > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:32 PM please stop top posting.. >> Sonasath, Moiz had written, on 07/15/2009 05:29 PM, the following: >> I am also not sure, if the count=100; value will be enough time for the XUDF >> > to be set. If not then it will keep running into timeout errors. >> Do you mean we need a delay for checking again? that should be easy to >> incorporate - what kind of delay are we speaking of here? do you have a >> count requirement for handling this? it is essentially the time b/w XRDY >> to XUNDF.. this should be deterministic rt? >> > > AFAIK, the time between XRDY/XDR and setting of XUDF bit is not >deterministic, it depends on the I2C bus speed but I am not sure if we >can translate the speed into a fixed count number which we can use as a > timeout limit. In that case we need to make a balanced assumption of >the count value so that we don't fall in the timeout case under normal >operation. > > May be someone can give a pointer here. > Here is my attempt at this: XRDY -> in this case the FIFO is completely empty - fill it up for XTRSH XDR -> FIFO is not completely empty, fill as per TXSTAT reg. if you look at the sequences of events that should happen -> a) no previous data transmitted: XRDY, XUNDF b) previous data available, XDR, XRDY, XUNDF The variables are: i) bus speed ii) num bytes to empty (if XRDY then 0, else TXSTAT) Time = (num_bytes+c) * (1/bus_speed) where c = some constant time interval for XRDY->XUNDF.. I think.. One possible strategy: a)Worst case is XTRSH, so, Compute time prior to entry into transmit loop. Set the count as this+ add a constant for additional events b) Add a constant delay when you decide to continue back - not sure if cpu_relax is predictable delay.. [Moiz] Let me just rephrase what you said and from what I see in the TRM, XRDY-> when TX FIFO level is equal/below XTRSH and TXSTAT is equal/greater than XTRSH, LH will write number of data bytes specified by XTRSH XDR-> when TX FIFO level is equal/below the XTRSH and TXSTAT is less than XTRSH, LH will write number of data bytes specified by TXSTAT XUDF-> when shift register and the TX FIFO are empty and there are still some bytes to transmit (DCOUNT not 0) Here we are looking at the wait time between XRDY/XDR and XUDF. Considering worst case scenarios, Wait_time = (time to transmit out XTRSH bytes from the FIFO at the slowest bus speed) + (safeguard delay) The slowest bus speed appears in standard mode (100K bits/sec). Therefore, Wait_time = [(XTRSH*8)*(1/100K)] seconds + constant; Does this look correct? -- Regards, Nishanth Menon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
