>
> Hi Chunhao,
Have you tried something with the ALI1563? Our main question is why it
sometimes ignores setting of mode of operation in status2 register.
Please can you modify the driver to check if the written value matches?
(readback of HST_CNTL2) bits 5-3
outb ( .. value...)
if (inp(/...)&0x38 != value&0x38 printk("BAD FAULT IN DOS EXTENDER :)");
you can test this with
i2cdump 0 0x50
i2cdump 0 0x50 c
i2cdump 0 0x50
i2cdump 0 0x50 c
And then you should see if the command field has really changed or not.
thanks
Rudolf
>
> > Btw, the ABit motherboard User Guild says that it supports 144-bit wide
> > Dual channel DDR 400/333 memory, but neither of the above two kind memory
> > is DDR 400/333. Although the above two kind of memory can work on this
> > Abit motherboard, Does it have something to do with our problem?
> > We have no other ECC DDR memory here but the above two kind.
>
> No this is simply matter of SPD EEPROM on the memory module, if it works
> it cant influence our bussiness.
>
>
> >
> > The dump result is(I dump is for three times, the result are same):
> > Here I have a question:
> > I'm using the address 50 to do the dump operation. How to judge the address
> > 50 is correct? I do not have a motherboard spec here.
>
> It is standart address for first slot.
> http://download.micron.com/pdf/technotes/TN_04_42.pdf
>
> > [root@ /usr/src/linux]# sensors
> > eeprom-i2c-0-50
> > Adapter: SMBus ALi 1563 Adapter @ 5000
> > Unknown EEPROM type (255).
> COnsecutive byte read failed and I know why :)
>
>
> > eeprom-i2c-0-50
> > Adapter: SMBus ALi 1563 Adapter @ 5000
> > Unknown EEPROM type (172)
>
> It is telling us favourite value "AC"
>
> >
> > [root@ /usr/src/linux]# i2cdump 0 0x50
> > No size specified (using byte-data access)
> > WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse!
> > I will probe file /dev/i2c-0, address 0x50, mode byte
> > Continue? [Y/n]
> > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
> > 00: ac ff 07 0c 0a 01 48 00 04 75 75 02 80 08 08 01 ?.????H.?uu?????
>
> and here again.
>
> I bet that if you would do just after this "AC infected" dump the dump in
> "continuous mode" i2cdump 0 0x50 c we would get all "ac" values that
> explains why we have them now in other
> fields like byte #2.
>
> So I went again through the logs from wendnesday
>
> http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg30326.html
>
> And I found that status register2 does NOT change when changing the mode
> ..BYTE_DATA versus to ..._DATA.
>
> Once we can get "consecutive byte reads" working
>
> i2cdump 0 0x50 c the memory detection will be working again because the
> driver uses this mode. (you can check the the binary
> cat /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/eeprom/0-0050/
> detach_state driver/ eeprom name power/
> "eeprom" file in this directory.
>
> take a look to messgage3 from the 30th march.
>
>
> In fact this files contains rest of i2cdump 0 0x50 for some reason
> and this log ends just
>
> Mar 30 13:19:26 pi140001 kernel
>
> Mar 30 13:19:26 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is I2C_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA!
> Mar 30 13:19:26 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is HST_CNTL2_BYTE_DATA!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> size is I2C_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA!
> i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is HST_CNTL2_BYTE_DATA!
> kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: rw == I2C_SMBUS_READ!
> kernel: i2c-ali1563: ENTERING ali1563_transaction, line: 77
> Mar 30 13:19:26 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (pre):
> STS=00, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=ff
> , ADD=a1, DAT0=ff, DAT1=ff
> Mar 30 13:19:26 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (post):
> STS=42, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=ff, ADD=a1, DAT0=ff, DAT1=00
> ^^^^^^^^
> And after that the i2cdump 0 0x50 c was invoked
>
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c-ali1563: ENTERING ali1563_access, line: 251
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is I2C_SMBUS_BYTE!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is HST_CNTL2_BYTE!
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: rw == I2C_SMBUS_WRITE!
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c-ali1563: ENTERING ali1563_transaction, line: 77
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (pre):
> STS=00, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=00, ADD=a0, DAT0=ff, DAT1=00
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (post):
> STS=42, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=00, ADD=a0, DAT0=ff, DAT1=00
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is I2C_SMBUS_BYTE!
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: size is HST_CNTL2_BYTE!
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: rw == I2C_SMBUS_READ!
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c-ali1563: ENTERING
> ali1563_transaction, line: 77
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (pre):
> STS=00, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=00
> , ADD=a1, DAT0=ff, DAT1=00
> Mar 30 13:19:39 pi140001 kernel: i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (post):
> STS=42, CNTL1=00, CNTL2=18, CMD=0
> 0, ADD=a1, DAT0=ff, DAT1=00
>
> And because DAT0 is FF we get FF all the way.
>
> I'm sorry I must stop with this now. I must go to school and really work
> for myself. I will have time again next week. Maybe I will be able to read
> emails during weekend (GPRS) so if you have something you want to know try
> to write me a mail.
>
> If you grep through message1 and message2 you could find that the mode
> of CTNTL2 changes but in message3 it does NOT. I dont know why. Please try
> to find this.
>
> cat message3 | awk '{print $12}' |sort |uniq
>
> This prints mostly the CNTL2 and its states
>
> The smart card mail is still in my queue. best would be if you just find
> some mailning list for smartcard devel people and ask the for cooperation
> like us. If you want some superio example look to mmc/ directory in 2.6
> kernels there is driver for some memory card using DMA and windbond chip.
> I dont know if it helps you.
>
> regards
>
> Rudolf
>
