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From: Gianluca <gmattiroli@midsx.ch>
To: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: socketCAN mcp2515 - rx buffer overflow
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:35:26 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120308T152308-549@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4F58BE03.5030905@pengutronix.de

Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl <at> pengutronix.de> writes:

> Using an SPI attached CAN controller is a really bad choice. Try is
> upgrading to mx53, which has as far as I know one or even two internal
> flexcan cores, an option for you? Another option is to attach a local
> bus capable controller like the SJA1000 to your CPU, or use an USB
> dongle or a PCMCIA card.
> 
> The next thing is the SPI driver on the (mainline) mx51. If I remember
> correctly the mainline kernel doesn't support DMA for the SPI driver
> yet. I don't know if the freescale kernel does. Depending on your kernel
> version there are some knobs to tune the PIO SPI driver, mainly to
> increase the priority of the SPI task.
> 
> Last but not least, there is a not yet mainlined improved version of the
> mcp2515 driver around.
> 
> regards, Marc

Ok, it does not sound to be stable and safe solution. Maybe using the SJA1000 
would be a better choice for our project. Thanks for the help.

Gianluca





      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08 13:09 socketCAN mcp2515 - rx buffer overflow Gianluca
2012-03-08 14:11 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-03-08 14:35   ` Gianluca [this message]

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