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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-28 16:26:12 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-28 16:26:12 +0100 |
commit | 7a9787e1eba95a166265e6a260cf30af04ef0a99 (patch) | |
tree | e730a4565e0318140d2fbd2f0415d18a339d7336 /Documentation/spi/pxa2xx | |
parent | 41b9eb264c8407655db57b60b4457fe1b2ec9977 (diff) | |
parent | 0173a3265b228da319ceb9c1ec6a5682fd1b2d92 (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/spi/pxa2xx')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/pxa2xx | 38 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx index f3853cc37bde..6bb916d57c95 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx +++ b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Declaring PXA2xx Master Controllers ----------------------------------- Typically a SPI master is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c as a "platform device". The master configuration is passed to the driver via a table -found in include/asm-arm/arch-pxa/pxa2xx_spi.h: +found in arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/pxa2xx_spi.h: struct pxa2xx_spi_master { enum pxa_ssp_type ssp_type; @@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ using the "spi_board_info" structure found in "linux/spi/spi.h". See Each slave device attached to the PXA must provide slave specific configuration information via the structure "pxa2xx_spi_chip" found in -"include/asm-arm/arch-pxa/pxa2xx_spi.h". The pxa2xx_spi master controller driver +"arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/pxa2xx_spi.h". The pxa2xx_spi master controller driver will uses the configuration whenever the driver communicates with the slave -device. +device. All fields are optional. struct pxa2xx_spi_chip { u8 tx_threshold; @@ -112,14 +112,17 @@ used to configure the SSP hardware fifo. These fields are critical to the performance of pxa2xx_spi driver and misconfiguration will result in rx fifo overruns (especially in PIO mode transfers). Good default values are - .tx_threshold = 12, - .rx_threshold = 4, + .tx_threshold = 8, + .rx_threshold = 8, + +The range is 1 to 16 where zero indicates "use default". The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is used to configure PXA2xx DMA engine and is related the "spi_device.bits_per_word" field. Read and understand the PXA2xx "Developer Manual" sections on the DMA controller and SSP Controllers to determine the correct value. An SSP configured for byte-wide transfers would -use a value of 8. +use a value of 8. The driver will determine a reasonable default if +dma_burst_size == 0. The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout" fields is used to efficiently handle trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo. The correct value for this field is @@ -137,7 +140,13 @@ function for asserting/deasserting a slave device chip select. If the field is NULL, the pxa2xx_spi master controller driver assumes that the SSP port is configured to use SSPFRM instead. -NSSP SALVE SAMPLE +NOTE: the SPI driver cannot control the chip select if SSPFRM is used, so the +chipselect is dropped after each spi_transfer. Most devices need chip select +asserted around the complete message. Use SSPFRM as a GPIO (through cs_control) +to accomodate these chips. + + +NSSP SLAVE SAMPLE ----------------- The pxa2xx_spi_chip structure is passed to the pxa2xx_spi driver in the "spi_board_info.controller_data" field. Below is a sample configuration using @@ -206,18 +215,21 @@ static void __init streetracer_init(void) DMA and PIO I/O Support ----------------------- -The pxa2xx_spi driver support both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message -transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must enabled by -setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and -ensuring that the "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is non-zero. The DMA -mode support both coherent and stream based DMA mappings. +The pxa2xx_spi driver supports both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message +transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must be enabled +by setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure. The DMA +mode supports both coherent and stream based DMA mappings. The following logic is used to determine the type of I/O to be used on a per "spi_transfer" basis: -if !enable_dma or dma_burst_size == 0 then +if !enable_dma then always use PIO transfers +if spi_message.len > 8191 then + print "rate limited" warning + use PIO transfers + if spi_message.is_dma_mapped and rx_dma_buf != 0 and tx_dma_buf != 0 then use coherent DMA mode |