Re: BestComm ATA task on MPC52xx

[Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>]

Which chip revision are you using?

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Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

Marian Balakowicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on bringing up a DMA support for ATA controller on MPC52xx
> and I am facing problems for which I am not pretty sure what the actual
> root cause is.
> 
> There was a John Rigby's patch last year, which was based on arch/ppc
> and drivers/ide (mpc52xx_ide.c). I use arch/powerpc and adopted to
> libata version of mpc52xx_ide.c which is now merged to vanilla and is
> called pata_mpc52xx.c. On top of this I have John Rigby's modifications
> converted from ide to libata. Problems appear with the first DMA
> transfer attempt, which happens during a driver probe when partition
> table is read. There shall be a interrupt signaling a transfer end and
> the handler (not present in John Rigby's code) should do the transfer
> closing. But the interrupt is not received and after the cmd timeouts it
> looks like ATA controller registers, BestComm registers, buffer
> descriptors and BestComm ATA task variables are unchanged. So, it seems
> that for some reason ATA BestComm task did not run/do it's job.
> 
> Did anyone had any success with ATA DMA on 52xx? Or maybe hear about
> newer version of the ATA BestComm task, or some useful ways of debugging
> BestComm stuff? I am planning to post my working code but need a day or
> two to clean it up a little.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marian
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