Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752830Ab0AUGtF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:49:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752750Ab0AUGtE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:49:04 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f198.google.com ([209.85.211.198]:61209 "EHLO mail-yw0-f198.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752713Ab0AUGtB (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:49:01 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HOAraQ8EcS6fLbjIzbnv54UUWRIzotnlBOufH6M/kx09k3FiYaQW6KHYWnnRzs0jZs /5sX4nghl7IIUbvIs3ReTuoy2iYXQfOCrokenkplSsGBC/+IR8ULkAFKnNETJ9l99P5I DMMvGxlPXxSgjLK7mUaSkcyGxymevl1ECZtMM= Message-ID: <4B57F8D6.6080902@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:48:54 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Krzysztof Halasa CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: SATA_SIL on IXP425 workaround References: <201001141659.19687.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4B57DEE9.8030604@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <4B57DEE9.8030604@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2204 Lines: 46 On 01/20/2010 11:58 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 01/14/2010 10:59 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> On Monday 09 November 2009 06:31:21 pm Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >>> I'm trying to add a workaround for IXP4xx CPUs to SATA SIL driver. The >>> problem is that IXP4xx CPUs (Intel's XScale (ARM) network-oriented >>> processors) are unable to perform 8 and 16-bit read from PCI MMIO, they >>> can only do a full 32-bit readl(); SIL chips respond to that with PCI >>> abort. The workaround is to use 8 and 16-bit regular IO reads (inb/inw) >>> instead (MMIO write is not a problem). >>> >>> For SIL3x12 the workaround is simple (attached) and it works on my 3512. >>> I'm not sure about 3114 (the 4-port chip) - the PIO BARs have TF, CTL >>> and BWDMA registers which are common to channels 0 and 2, and (the other >>> set) to channels 1 and 3. Channel selection is done with bit 4 of >>> device/head TF register, this is similar (same?) as PATA master/slave. >>> Does that mean that I can simply treat channel 0 as PRI master, ch#2 as >>> PRI slave, ch#1 as SEC master and ch#3 as SEC slave, and the SFF code >>> will select the right device correctly? Does it need additional code? >>> I don't have anything based on 3114. >>> >>> Note: the large PRD is not a problem here, the transfer can be started >>> by MMIO write. Only reads are an issue. >> >> FWIW your patch is now in my atang tree (I'm aware that Jeff is working >> on generic solution but in the meantime this non-intrusive patch allows >> sata_sil to work on IXP425). > > I was asking an open question, is a generic solution possible? > > Something like the attached patch might work, due it is completely > untested, and I did not verify that the BMDMA Status register is not > stomped. Also, the additional ioread32() calls in bmdma start/stop are > LIKELY to be unnecessary. As I suspected, there is a W1C register in there. But it does look possible to do all-32-bit accesses. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/