On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:22:00PM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote: > On Feb 15, 2012 6:48 PM, "Daniel Vetter" <dan...@ffwll.ch> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:03:17PM -0800, Benson Leung wrote: > > > gmbus_xfer with a single message (particularly a single message write) > > > would > > > set Bus Cycle Select to 100b, the Gen Stop cycle, instead of 101b, > > > No Index, Stop cycle. This would not start single message i2c > > > transactions. > > > > > > Also, gmbus_xfer done: will disable the interface without checking if > > > it is idle. In the case of writes, there will be no wait on status or > > > delay > > > to ensure the write starts and completes before the interface is turned > > > off. > > > > > > Fixed the former issue by using the same cycle selection as used in the > > > I2C_M_RD for the write case. > > > GMBUS_CYCLE_WAIT | (i + 1 == num ? GMBUS_CYCLE_STOP : 0) > > > Fixed the latter by waiting on GMBUS_ACTIVE to deassert before disable. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Benson Leung <ble...@chromium.org> > > Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djku...@chromium.org> > > > > > Can you clarify the commit message a bit and say that the first hunk is > > just for optics and the issue is only with the write path (because the > > read path is correct already). Silly me is just to easily confused ;-) > > > > Btw, I've reworked the gmbus -> gpio bit-banging fallback code a bit and > > if that passes review and all I'll reenable gmbus by default again. See > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=gmbus > > If the write case is fixed by Benson's patch, is there any known use > case that still requires i2c bit banging on these pins? It would be a > nice cleanup to remove it completely.
Let's first see how much things blow up when re-enabling gmbus again ;-) > Also, I can think of at least two further potential performance > improvements that I was wondering if anybody has yet pursued: > (1) Enabling the i915's gmbus interrupt. This would eliminate the > need for the (relatively slow) wait_for polling loop. > (2) Taking advantage of the i915's "INDEX" cycles to combine writing > a (1 or 2 byte) address & reading back an array of bytes into a single > transaction. Afaik no one looked into this, but patches are highly welcome. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Mail: dan...@ffwll.ch Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
