This document is hardly readable when converted to HTML. Mark code
sections as such and use tables to improve readability a lot. Some
content has slightly been moved around, but no significant changes were
made.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
---
This is a preparational patch before adding more features to the
testunit.
Documentation/i2c/slave-testunit-backend.rst | 122 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-testunit-backend.rst b/Documentation/i2c/slave-testunit-backend.rst
index ecfc2abec32d..0df60c7c0be4 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/slave-testunit-backend.rst
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-testunit-backend.rst
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Note that this is a device for testing and debugging. It should not be enabled
in a production build. And while there is some versioning and we try hard to
keep backward compatibility, there is no stable ABI guaranteed!
-Instantiating the device is regular. Example for bus 0, address 0x30:
+Instantiating the device is regular. Example for bus 0, address 0x30::
-# echo "slave-testunit 0x1030" > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
+ # echo "slave-testunit 0x1030" > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
After that, you will have a write-only device listening. Reads will just return
an 8-bit version number of the testunit. When writing, the device consists of 4
@@ -26,14 +26,17 @@ an 8-bit version number of the testunit. When writing, the device consists of 4
written to start a testcase, i.e. you usually write 4 bytes to the device. The
registers are:
-0x00 CMD - which test to trigger
-0x01 DATAL - configuration byte 1 for the test
-0x02 DATAH - configuration byte 2 for the test
-0x03 DELAY - delay in n * 10ms until test is started
+.. csv-table::
+ :header: "Offset", "Name", "Description"
-Using 'i2cset' from the i2c-tools package, the generic command looks like:
+ 0x00, CMD, which test to trigger
+ 0x01, DATAL, configuration byte 1 for the test
+ 0x02, DATAH, configuration byte 2 for the test
+ 0x03, DELAY, delay in n * 10ms until test is started
-# i2cset -y <bus_num> <testunit_address> <CMD> <DATAL> <DATAH> <DELAY> i
+Using 'i2cset' from the i2c-tools package, the generic command looks like::
+
+ # i2cset -y <bus_num> <testunit_address> <CMD> <DATAL> <DATAH> <DELAY> i
DELAY is a generic parameter which will delay the execution of the test in CMD.
While a command is running (including the delay), new commands will not be
@@ -45,44 +48,83 @@ result in the transfer not being acknowledged.
Commands
--------
-0x00 NOOP (reserved for future use)
+0x00 NOOP
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Reserved for future use.
+
+0x01 READ_BYTES
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. list-table::
+ :header-rows: 1
+
+ * - CMD
+ - DATAL
+ - DATAH
+ - DELAY
+
+ * - 0x01
+ - address to read data from (lower 7 bits, highest bit currently unused)
+ - number of bytes to read
+ - n * 10ms
+
+Also needs master mode. This is useful to test if your bus master driver is
+handling multi-master correctly. You can trigger the testunit to read bytes
+from another device on the bus. If the bus master under test also wants to
+access the bus at the same time, the bus will be busy. Example to read 128
+bytes from device 0x50 after 50ms of delay::
+
+ # i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x01 0x50 0x80 0x05 i
+
+0x02 SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. list-table::
+ :header-rows: 1
+
+ * - CMD
+ - DATAL
+ - DATAH
+ - DELAY
-0x01 READ_BYTES (also needs master mode)
- DATAL - address to read data from (lower 7 bits, highest bit currently unused)
- DATAH - number of bytes to read
+ * - 0x02
+ - low byte of the status word to send
+ - high byte of the status word to send
+ - n * 10ms
-This is useful to test if your bus master driver is handling multi-master
-correctly. You can trigger the testunit to read bytes from another device on
-the bus. If the bus master under test also wants to access the bus at the same
-time, the bus will be busy. Example to read 128 bytes from device 0x50 after
-50ms of delay:
+Also needs master mode. This test will send an SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY message to the
+host. Note that the status word is currently ignored in the Linux Kernel.
+Example to send a notification after 10ms::
-# i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x01 0x50 0x80 0x05 i
+ # i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x02 0x42 0x64 0x01 i
-0x02 SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY (also needs master mode)
- DATAL - low byte of the status word to send
- DATAH - high byte of the status word to send
+0x03 SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-This test will send an SMBUS_HOST_NOTIFY message to the host. Note that the
-status word is currently ignored in the Linux Kernel. Example to send a
-notification after 10ms:
+.. list-table::
+ :header-rows: 1
-# i2cset -y 0 0x30 0x02 0x42 0x64 0x01 i
+ * - CMD
+ - DATAL
+ - DATAH
+ - DELAY
-0x03 SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL (partial command)
- DATAL - must be '1', i.e. one further byte will be written
- DATAH - number of bytes to be sent back
- DELAY - not applicable, partial command!
+ * - 0x03
+ - must be '1', i.e. one further byte will be written
+ - number of bytes to be sent back
+ - leave out, partial command!
-This test will respond to a block process call as defined by the SMBus
-specification. The one data byte written specifies how many bytes will be sent
-back in the following read transfer. Note that in this read transfer, the
-testunit will prefix the length of the bytes to follow. So, if your host bus
-driver emulates SMBus calls like the majority does, it needs to support the
-I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag of an i2c_msg. This is a good testcase for it. The returned
-data consists of the length first, and then of an array of bytes from length-1
-to 0. Here is an example which emulates i2c_smbus_block_process_call() using
-i2ctransfer (you need i2c-tools v4.2 or later):
+Partial command. This test will respond to a block process call as defined by
+the SMBus specification. The one data byte written specifies how many bytes
+will be sent back in the following read transfer. Note that in this read
+transfer, the testunit will prefix the length of the bytes to follow. So, if
+your host bus driver emulates SMBus calls like the majority does, it needs to
+support the I2C_M_RECV_LEN flag of an i2c_msg. This is a good testcase for it.
+The returned data consists of the length first, and then of an array of bytes
+from length-1 to 0. Here is an example which emulates
+i2c_smbus_block_process_call() using i2ctransfer (you need i2c-tools v4.2 or
+later)::
-# i2ctransfer -y 0 w3@0x30 0x03 0x01 0x10 r?
-0x10 0x0f 0x0e 0x0d 0x0c 0x0b 0x0a 0x09 0x08 0x07 0x06 0x05 0x04 0x03 0x02 0x01 0x00
+ # i2ctransfer -y 0 w3@0x30 0x03 0x01 0x10 r?
+ 0x10 0x0f 0x0e 0x0d 0x0c 0x0b 0x0a 0x09 0x08 0x07 0x06 0x05 0x04 0x03 0x02 0x01 0x00
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