ucc_uart: add support for Freescale QUICCEngine UART
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Wed Dec 5 09:33:43 EST 2007
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Can you use the driver on CPUs without this particular bug when it's built
> in Soft-UART mode?
No, you have to build with Soft-UART mode turned off. Soft-UART mode actually
uses the HMC mode of the QE and hacks it up to act like a UART.
The only way to know at runtime whether Soft-UART is required is to check the
SOC model/revision and compare it to a list.
I could add code to check this list and enable Soft-UART if when there's a known
CPU with the problem. However, I can't know whether I need to upload the
microcode. I also have a U-Boot version of qe_upload_firmware(), so it's
conceivable that U-Boot could have uploaded the microcode but I still need the
Linux driver to use Soft-UART.
I also have no control over which Soft-UART microcodes are available. It's
possible that some SOCs could have this bug but Freescale won't produce a
microcode to fix it.
> Try to reduce the number of #ifdefs in your code. In particular, you should
> not do conditional #includes and #defines, as they often lead to subtle bugs.
Ok, I can remove those #defines, but my main concern was to clearly isolate the
Soft-UART code, since it is an ugly hack. I didn't want to mesh the Soft-UART
code with the normal UART code. I don't know what more I could do to limit the
number of #ifdefs.
>> +struct ucc_uart_pram {
>> + struct ucc_slow_pram common;
>> + u8 res1[8]; /* reserved */
>> + __be16 maxidl; /* Maximum idle chars */
>> + __be16 idlc; /* temp idle counter */
>> + __be16 brkcr; /* Break count register */
>> + __be16 parec; /* receive parity error counter */
>> + __be16 frmec; /* receive framing error counter */
>> + __be16 nosec; /* receive noise counter */
>> + __be16 brkec; /* receive break condition counter */
>> + __be16 brkln; /* last received break length */
>> + __be16 uaddr[2]; /* UART address character 1 & 2 */
>> + __be16 rtemp; /* Temp storage */
>> + __be16 toseq; /* Transmit out of sequence char */
>> + __be16 cchars[8]; /* control characters 1-8 */
>> + __be16 rccm; /* receive control character mask */
>> + __be16 rccr; /* receive control character register */
>> + __be16 rlbc; /* receive last break character */
>> + __be16 res2; /* reserved */
>> + __be32 res3; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + u8 res4; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + u8 res5[3]; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res6; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res7; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res8; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res9; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res10; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res11; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res12; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> + __be32 res13; /* reserved, should be cleared */
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_QE_SOFT_UART
>> + __be16 supsmr; /* 0x90, Shadow UPSMR */
>> + __be16 res92; /* 0x92, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + __be32 rx_state; /* 0x94, RX state, initialize to 0 */
>> + __be32 rx_cnt; /* 0x98, RX count, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 rx_length; /* 0x9C, Char length, set to 1+CL+PEN+1+SL */
>> + u8 rx_bitmark; /* 0x9D, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 rx_temp_dlst_qe; /* 0x9E, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 res14[0xBC - 0x9F]; /* reserved */
>> + __be32 dump_ptr; /* 0xBC, Dump pointer */
>> + __be32 rx_frame_rem; /* 0xC0, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 rx_frame_rem_size; /* 0xC4, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 tx_mode; /* 0xC5, mode, 0=AHDLC, 1=UART */
>> + u16 tx_state; /* 0xC6, TX state */
>> + u8 res15[0xD0 - 0xC8]; /* reserved */
>> + __be32 resD0; /* 0xD0, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + u8 resD4; /* 0xD4, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> + __be16 resD5; /* 0xD5, reserved, initialize to 0 */
>> +#endif
>> +} __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> The structure is perfectly packed even without your __attribute__ ((packed)),
> so you should leave out the attribute in order to get more efficient code
> accessing it.
If the structure is packed either way, why would the code differ? I don't see
how the code would be more efficient if I removed "__attribute__ ((packed))".
If gcc does something differently, that's news to me.
> Do you really need the debugging function like this in the code?
> Usually they are rather pointless once the code works, and will
> suffer from bitrot because nobody enables the code.
Well, I'm hesitant to remove it because I have a feeling that if I do, the next
day I'll want it.
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_QE_SOFT_UART
>> +#define UCC_UART_SUPSMR_SL 0x8000
>> +#define UCC_UART_SUPSMR_RPM_MASK 0x6000
>> +#define UCC_UART_SUPSMR_RPM_ODD 0x0000
>> +#define UCC_UART_SUPSMR_RPM_LOW 0x2000
>
> again, the #ifdef should be left out if it can.
Alright.
>
>> + * Given the virtual address for a character buffer, this function returns
>> + * the physical (DMA) equivalent.
>> + */
>> +static inline dma_addr_t cpu2qe_addr(void *addr, struct uart_qe_port *qe_port)
>> +{
>> + if (likely((addr >= qe_port->bd_virt)) &&
>> + (addr < (qe_port->bd_virt + qe_port->bd_size)))
>> + return qe_port->bd_phys + (addr - qe_port->bd_virt);
>> +
>> + /* something nasty happened */
>> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: addr=%p\n", __FUNCTION__, addr);
>> + BUG();
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>
> I'm guessing that you don't really mean dma_addr_t here, but rather
> phys_addr_t, which is something different.
Now that I think about it, I think I really mean unsigned, since the returned
value is just an offset. I need to think about that.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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