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* FHCI driver adaptation for CPM2
@ 2008-12-17 15:10 Remi Lefevre
  2008-12-17 15:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Remi Lefevre @ 2008-12-17 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev

Hi,

I have a few questions with regard to adapting the FHCI USB host
controller driver (for QE) from Anton Vorontsov to CPM2, based
on past discussions from linuxppc-dev & linuxppc-embedded.

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-April/054253.html
>On Tuesday 08 April 2008 14:16, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:11:15PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> > I had a first go at hacking the FHCI driver to make it run on a CPM2
>> > platform. Results so far are quite good. After getting rid of qe-speci=
fic
>> > APIs as explained above, and adding SOF token generation support, I've
>> > been able to access a mass storage device. The driver hasn't been
>> > stress-tested yet though.
>>
>> Wow, awesome! That's great news, really. Looking forward for the patch. =
:-)
>
>The current version of the code is CPM2-specific and won't work on QE-base=
d
>platforms. Should I still post it ?

Has this CPM2  patch adaptation been posted somewhere ?
I will have soon to evaluate an USB disk on MPC8270 and it would be great t=
o
spend time working on adapting the patch to last gpio changes and trying to
merge it with the original QE patch rather than doing this work again.

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2008-June/030541.html
>Laurent Pinchart-4 wrote:
>The bad news is that, from my experience with the CPM2, the controller is
>almost unusable. It eats around 40% CPU time on my MPC8248 system, and
>requires software help to generate SOF tokens, which results in bad SOF
>tokens being sent on the bus. Most USB disks don't seem to care, but all t=
he
>USB Bluetooth host controllers I've tested crashed.

Does this mean than SOF tokens handling can be ignored when working with
USB disks, or only that they don't care of a few errors ?

Also 40% seems quite a lot, even at 1000Hz interruptions, an idea how much
does the CRC computation contribute in this CPU hogging ?

Best regards,
R=E9mi Lef=E8vre

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