Re: [PATCH 0/2] Experimental Amiga Zorro ESP driver

[Tuomas Vainikka <tuomas.vainikka@aalto.fi>]

On 08/20/2013 12:36 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Tuomas,
>
>> I guess those two bytes have something to do with target 
>> (re)selection... There are two different ways of attempting to read 
>> these bytes in the code, one is reading them from the FIFO byte by 
>> byte, and the other way is to setup a DMA read (write from device). 
>> The two different schemes are used in two different functions, and I 
>> do not understand why one method would be preferred over the other 
>> when comparing these functions.
>
> What the driver attempts to read on reselection are the tag bytes that 
> were used in the previous disconnect. These have to match otherwise we 
> are not reselecting the command we need.
>
> No idea which functions you refer to regarding PIO (reading from 
> FIFO). Anyway, the DMA will read from the same FIFO that the CPU 
> would, if I understand DMA correctly. There really should be no 
> difference-
esp.scsi.c:1058 versus esp.scsi.c:1120
>
>> I think I managed to find these two bytes; They are not ready for 
>> DMA, but are sitting in the FIFO waiting to be read.
>> So the loop before the "IRQ2 timeout" is waiting for an interrupt 
>> that would tell that the DMA transfer has finished.
>
> The loop checks whether the ESP status indicates the transfer is done 
> - if the bytes are still stuck in the FIFO I'd guess the DMA does not 
> bother to transfer for such small transfer counts.
In:
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheet/AdvancedMicroDevices/mXxxsy.pdf
page 42: Enable Selection/Reselection Command (Command Code 44H/C4H)

explains why the bytes might end up in FIFO; The chip DMA got disabled 
at some point. Also, you need to explicitly issue a specific (don't know 
which, yet) command to let the DMA access the FIFO.
>
> The DMA transfer function can be changed to fetch less than seven 
> bytes from the FIFO by PIO instead of setting up DMA transfer (just 
> poll the FIFO after sending the command to the ESP, instead of first 
> setting up the DMA then sending the command),
>
I'd rather find out why and where the DMA is disabled before we resort 
to PIO. It is also possible that the chip interrupt is cleared 
prematurely by reading the interrupt register, in which case the 
interrupt is not seen by  The Loop.

-Tuomas