Hi, And then it's time to play with my external UART again, which I try to connect to the AMD Alchemy AU1100 processor. The UART is connected by means of chip-select two and tree of the static bus controller. Of course it still doesn't work, but in playing with it I am dazed and confused about some strange timings I do not understand. Hopefully somebody over here is willing and able to explain things a little bit to me. I have written a small kernel module that will load and tries to communicate with the UART. I see chip-select, read-enable, write-enable and the likes toggle, so I'm really talking to the UART. But in talking to it I do not understand some things regarding readb() and writeb(). I do two readb()'s after each other like below: #define LSR 0x14 void __iomem *p; p=ioremap((phys_t)0xDAE000000LL,0x20); readb(p+LSR); readb(p+LSR); The readb()'s translate to the MIPS assembly below: lbu $2,20($16) lbu $2,20($16) If I than use an oscilloscope to measure the time between the assertion of the chip-select's I get approx. 250ns. So whatever I try, I will not get two consecutive readb()'s faster than 250ns after each other. No worries yet, since my friendly UART does not want things to happen more fast than it can handle. Next I do two writeb()'s after each other like below: /* I have skipped the ioremap() etc... for brevity. */ writeb(0xA5,p+SPR); writeb(0x5A,p+SPR); The writeb()'s translate to the MIPS assembly below: li $3,165 # 0xa5 sb $3,28($16) li $3,90 # 0x5a sb $3,28($16) Now the time between the assertion of the chip-select's is approx. 175ns. Still no worries and I can again be happy with the results. But here comes the great evil (tm). Now I do a readb() right after a writeb(): writeb(0x5A,p+SPR); readb(p+LSR); And this translates like expected to: li $3,90 # 0x5a sb $3,28($16) lbu $3,20($16) But now suddenly the CPU really cranks up it's engine and is able to assert the chip-select again within approx. 4ns. And now I'm in big trouble, since my friendly UART can't cope in this fast paced world. I'm also in big trouble, since I do not understand how this is possible. How can it be that two consecutive readb()'s or writeb()'s are at least 175ns apart from each other and a readb() after a writeb() happens fast like hell? Can anybody explain this to me? Might be nice to add that a writeb() after a readb() takes again a long time; approx. 700ns. Also I have played a lot with the values in the mem_sttime register and the long delay's in between do not stem from those values. For some reason it just takes at least 250ns between two consecutive readb()'s and 175ns between two writeb()'s. Anybody got a hint why? And then especially why it does not take that long between a writeb() and a readb()? -- $ cat ~/.signature Freddy Spierenburg <freddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://freddy.snarl.nl/ GnuPG: 0x7941D1E1=C948 5851 26D2 FA5C 39F1 E588 6F17 FD5D 7941 D1E1 $ # Please read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt before complain!
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