Re: [PATCH 1/2] thunderbolt: Read DROM directly from NVM before trying bit banging

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 09:46:45AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Some TBT3 devices have a hard time reliably responding to bit banging
> requests correctly when connected to AMD USB4 hosts running Linux.
> 
> These problems are not reported in any other CM, and comparing the
> implementations the Linux CM is the only one that utilizes bit banging
> to access the DROM. Other CM implementations access the DROM directly
> from the NVM instead of bit banging.

I'm sure Apple CM uses bitbanging because it is what Andreas reverse
engineered when he added the initial Linux Thunderbolt support ;-) I
guess this is then only Window CM? The problem with reading NVM directly
is that we may lose things like UUID, so I'm wondering if there is
something else going on.

Can you give some details, like what is the device in question?

> Adjust the flow to try this on TBT3 devices before resorting to bit
> banging.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c
> index c90d22f56d4e1..d9d9567bb938b 100644
> --- a/drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c
> +++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c
> @@ -640,6 +640,10 @@ int tb_drom_read(struct tb_switch *sw)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* TBT3 devices have the DROM as part of NVM */
> +	if (tb_drom_copy_nvm(sw, &size) == 0)
> +		goto parse;
> +
>  	res = tb_drom_read_n(sw, 14, (u8 *) &size, 2);
>  	if (res)
>  		return res;
> -- 
> 2.25.1