[info] Silicon Image device hotplug debounce

[info] Silicon Image device hotplug debounce

[Jeff Garzik]

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This is some info that Silicon Image provided, for use in developing 
SATA hotplug.  This info is public and not NDA as of the publishing of 
the SiI 311x hardware documentation at

	http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/

Kudos again to SiI for opening their 311x and CMD680 [PATA] docs.

	Jeff




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Here are some writeups for our 3112/3152 hot plug/unplug handling.  Hope it will
 help in your open source development.

For the 3114 controller, the sequence is essentially the same as the 3112 except
 that the PHYRDY change handler does not need to reset the channel and of course
 obvious changes to handle the two additional channels of the 3114.

Best regards,
[silicon image person]

During driver initialization:
   Write 0xFFFF0000 to both SERROR registers (BAR 5 offsets 0x108 and 0x188)
   to clear any pre-existing serial error bits.

   Enable the PHYRDY change interrupt (bit 16) of the SIEN registers
   (BAR 5 offsets 0x148 and 0x1C8)

Interrupt handler:
   Read PCI Bus Master2 - IDE0 register (BAR 5 offset 0x10) and examine
   bits 4 and 6.  If either bit is set then read the appropriate SERROR
   register and look at bit 16.  If this bit is set a PHYRDY change
   (hot plug/unplug event) has occurred and the PHYRDY change handler
   should be called.

PHYRDY change handler:
   If PHYRDY debounce timer is currently running, stop it.

   Read the appropriate SSTATUS register (BAR 5 offsets 0x104 or 0x184)
   and examine bits 0 and 1.  If both of these bits are not set then the
   device has been unplugged so perform a hard reset on the channel to
   cause the ATA status register to be reset to 0x7F to facilitate device
   detection later on if a device plugged back in.

   Restart the PHYRDY debounce timer (recommended timer period of ~500ms.)

PHYRDY debounce timer handler:
   Read the appropriate SSTATUS register (BAR 5 offsets 0x104 or 0x184)
   and examine bits 0 and 1.

   If both bits are set a device has been plugged in and the driver should
   run its normal device detection/configuration code to make the device
   ready for use.

   If both bits are not set then the device has been unplugged and the
   driver should clean-up any outstanding commands to the removed device.

Re: [info] Silicon Image device hotplug debounce

[Ricky Cheng]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> 
> This is some info that Silicon Image provided, for use in developing 
> SATA hotplug.  This info is public and not NDA as of the publishing of 
> the SiI 311x hardware documentation at
> 
> 	http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/sii/
> 
> Kudos again to SiI for opening their 311x and CMD680 [PATA] docs.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here are some writeups for our 3112/3152 hot plug/unplug handling.  Hope it 
will
>  help in your open source development.
> 
> For the 3114 controller, the sequence is essentially the same as the 3112 
except
>  that the PHYRDY change handler does not need to reset the channel and of 
course
>  obvious changes to handle the two additional channels of the 3114.
> 
> Best regards,
> [silicon image person]
> 


Hi, This is Ricky. I am finding solution of sil 3512 chip hotswap problem.
I think this doc can help some. But I don't really understand libata very much.
Can someone help some ideas?..Thanks
I know I should do something in interrupt handler in libata.c like check 
status of plug/unplug. Is is right?

Re: [info] Silicon Image device hotplug debounce

[Lukasz Kosewski]

On 7/31/05, Ricky Cheng <rickycheng@qnap.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi, This is Ricky. I am finding solution of sil 3512 chip hotswap problem.
> I think this doc can help some. But I don't really understand libata very much.
> Can someone help some ideas?..Thanks
> I know I should do something in interrupt handler in libata.c like check
> status of plug/unplug. Is is right?

Yo.

I'm working on a hotswap infrastructure patch right now that would
give you the API necessary to perform a hotswap.  There are
essentially two parts:

1)  The driver has to recognize that a plug/unplug event occurred
2)  libata has to take the appropriate action to plug/unplug a device.

Currently, I have only done step 1) for the sata_promise driver.  Step
2) is being... well, written.  Since you're doing hotswap stuff,
great, you can test it for me (I am in China until September with no
goddamn hardware to test with)!

Look (tonight, over the next few hours in fact) for messages of the
type "Add disk hotswap support to libata." I should have some patches
sent in by then.

Luke Kosewski

Re: [info] Silicon Image device hotplug debounce

[Ricky Cheng]

> Look (tonight, over the next few hours in fact) for messages of the
> type "Add disk hotswap support to libata." I should have some patches
> sent in by then.
> 

Hi, Luke

Thanks a lot, I'll keep waiting for the patch sent tonight to test.

Ricky Cheng