Re: [PATCH] Revert "spi: omap2-mcspi: Set FIFO DMA trigger level to word length"

[David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>]

On 1/14/19 6:30 AM, Vignesh R wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14/01/19 2:19 AM, David Lechner wrote:
>> This reverts commit b682cffa3ac6d9d9e16e9b413c45caee3b391fab.
>>
>> That commit breaks displays using tinydrm drivers, such as ili9225.
>>
>> It causes corruption in the image that is displayed (it looks like only
>> 1/2 of the framebuffer data is sent, the other half of the display
>> remains blank.)
>>
>> The following error appears multiple times:
>>
>>      ili9225 spi1.0: EOW timed out
>>
>> Eventually, the system locks up without any additional errors.
>>
> 
> Oops, that's unfortunate. I see ili9225 is using bits_per_word = 16.
> I believe commit b682cffa3ac6d9d broke spi_transfers where
> bits_per_word anything other than 8 bits.
> I don't have ili9225 HW but was able emulate this condition using a SPI
> flash as slave on AM335x and successfully reproduced the issue. Could
> you test if this diff[1] helps in fixing the regression without needing
> to revert commit b682cffa3ac6d9d?

Yes, this changes fixes the problem. Thanks!

> 
> If below diff does not help, then could you post logs of types of
> spi_transfers being queued by ili9225 driver? I guess you can dump them
> by enabling DEBUG option in tinydrm-helpers.c.
> Also which TI SoC are you using?
> 
I'm using BeagleBone Green, so AM335x as well.