[U-Boot] [PATCH V5 4/4] edminiv2: add mvsata_ide and cmd_ide support

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>]

Le 04/08/2010 08:08, Prafulla Wadaskar a ?crit :

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Prafulla Wadaskar
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:40 PM
>> To: 'Albert ARIBAUD'
>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; tanmay.upadhyay at einfochips.com;
>> Prabhanjan Sarnaik; Ashish Karkare
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH V5 4/4] edminiv2: add mvsata_ide and
>> cmd_ide support
>>
> ...snip...
>>>
>>> Actually two things were necessary to get ide reset to work
>> reliably:
>>>
>>> 1) adding a delay between the writes to SControl.
>>> Experimentation showed
>>> this delay should be at least 41 us on my board. I have set
>>> it to 50 us
>>> to play safe on possible HW characteristics dispersions.
>>>
>>> 2) moving the call(s) to mvsata_ide_initialize_port() from
>>> board_init()
>>> function to function ide_preinit(), which is called just
>>> before an IDE
>>> reset if CONFIG_IDE_INIT is set -- accordingly, I added
>>> ide_preinit() to
>>> openrd_base.c and defined CONFIG_IDE_INIT in kirkwood.h.
>>>
>>> Prafulla, can you try the patch attached above yours?
>>
>> Sure, I will try this and let you know
>
> Hi Albert
>
> It worked for me.

Great!

> You may post V7, then I will post my patches for Kirkwood sata support

Will do.

> I have two more suggestion,
> 1. put ide_preinit function in mvsata driver, define CONFIG_IDE_PREINIT in board config file
>
> 2. pls remove the blank lines between each command in function mvsata_ide_initialize_port, it looks ugly.

Ok for 1 and 2.

> 3. Instead of adding fixed 41/50 usec delay between the writes to Scontrol
> It would be good if you can check/poll some status bit associated with IDE controller, this will make mvsata driver rock solid on any platform.

I've looked up the marvell kirkwood and orion docs for such a control 
bit but found none. I'll look it up again, however it might help if you 
can find someone inside Marvell who would, and could, provide the info.

> Regards..
> Prafulla . .

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.