Re: UAS and f_tcm -- is anyone using it?

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On 9/20/2016 11:35 AM, John Youn wrote:
> On 9/20/2016 1:29 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> John Youn <John.Youn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>> There's also a TCM python tool somewhere which helps with this. I
>>>>>>> haven't used f_tcm in a long while, but Sebastian and I used it long
>>>>>>> back to test streams with dwc3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you tried it recently? Or do you know of anyone who has?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sebastian is the only one I know who has used this in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just from the code it seems there will be some fundamental issues with
>>>>>>>> it, such as the value of maxpacket size and some alt-interface
>>>>>>>> stuff. At least when used with DWC3.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> such as?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll see if I can write up the exact issues later. I have to go back
>>>>>> to my notes to remind myself.
>>>
>>> Ok, coming back to this uas gadget stuff.
>>>
>>> I've finally had a chance to go back to my notes. Here are some of the
>>> concrete issues that I found, that I was able to workaround in some
>>> way.
>>>
>>> * EP's for UAS alt-interface cannot be configured correctly because
>>>   the config_ep_for_speed() in composite.c does not take into account
>>>   alt-interfaces. This results in incorrectly configured EP in the
>>>   controller (no streaming enabled, wrong direction, etc).
>>
>> cool, that's a bug in composite.c which needs to be fixed.
>>
>>> * START_XFER command needs to enable streams
>>
>> bug in dwc3 which needs to be fixed.
>>
>>> * XFER_NOT_READY event needs to be enabled for streams
>>
>> bug in dwc3 which needs to be fixed :-) In any case, can you point me to
>> section in documention which states Streams *requires* XFER_NOT_READY?
> 
> It should be the same as used for BULK. Maybe it's not needed with
> your recent enhancements? Not sure. I have to rebase and test.
> 
>>
>>> * For OUT EPs, the TCM/target framework sets receive buffers size as
>>>   512 bytes. This cannot work in SUPERSPEED as you must always provide
>>>   at least MPS-sized buffers. This causes all writes to fail. I'm not
>>
>> that's a good point. TCM gadget should be checking for ep out aligned
>> quirk flag.
> 
> Is this an existing quirk? It's not just about alignment, but the size
> of the rx buffer, which it should know based on the MPS for the speed.
> 
>>
>>>   sure how to properly fix this as it should be fixed at the function
>>>   driver level, and this size comes from the target framework. I put a
>>>   workaround at the controller-level.
>>>
>>> After addressing these issues, UAS read/write works to some extent.
>>> But it is still unstable in ways that point to issues in the target
>>> framework, things to do with locking/race conditions there.
>>
>> Alright, those are all bugs which need to be fixed. Certainly we don't
>> need an entire new gadget just because you've found some bugs, right?
>>
> 
> Sure. I was just curious if there was any interest in it since we have
> an existing driver we could port.
> 
>> We'd be much better off fixing these problems because then more folks
>> would benefit from them.
> 
> Agree if it was working and being used in the first place.
> 
> But anyways I'll focus on TCM.
> 

Hi Sebastian, Andrzej,

If possible, could you share how you are using it? Such as in what
speed, mode, and with what controllers/platforms and hosts?

If you have any other tips on usage I would appreciate it.

I'm looking into getting it working with our dwc3 controller, maybe
also dwc2.

Regards,
John
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