From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@newgolddream.dyndns.info>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
dwmw2 <dwmw2@infradead.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3/3 maple: update bus driver to support Dreamcast VMU
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:04:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080324160429.GG2899@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206373900.6283.39.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 24 March 2008 15:51:40 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:29 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 March 2008 15:06:18 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think I have any alternative here. The problem is that the bus
> > > checks periodically (every HZ ticks but that could be changed) if a
> > > device remains connected to the system by queueing a status command. (If
> > > the status command is replied to with a "No response" then that
> > > indicates to the bus that the device has been removed.
> >
> > Where does this queueing happen? Somewhere in the kernel where we can
> > control it or in hardware?
>
> Well, the queuing of the status command is under software control.
Then we should be fine. I'll try to beat the code into submission.
Jörn
--
Joern's library part 7:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/neworl/full_papers/mckusick.a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 17:43 [PATCH] 0/3 - Add support for VMU flash memory and update maple bus driver on the SEGA Dreamcast Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-22 17:56 ` [PATCH] 1/3 mtd: add Kbuild support and makefile support for Dreamcast VMU Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 3:09 ` Paul Mundt
2008-03-22 18:03 ` [PATCH] 2/3 mtd: add support for flash on the SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-22 18:32 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-22 18:39 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-22 18:56 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 2:08 ` Paul Mundt
2008-03-24 11:21 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 12:06 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 13:21 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 13:58 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 14:10 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 14:43 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 14:46 ` Paul Mundt
2008-03-24 14:54 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 18:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 23:11 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-22 18:16 ` [PATCH] 3/3 maple: update bus driver to support Dreamcast VMU Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 3:33 ` Paul Mundt
2008-03-24 14:46 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 15:06 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 15:29 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 15:51 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 16:04 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-03-24 17:07 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 17:18 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 17:38 ` Jörn Engel
2008-03-24 17:55 ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-24 19:54 ` Jörn Engel
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