USB host on 83xx

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Fri Jan 29 00:20:25 EST 2010


On 01/28/2010 05:17 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/27/2010 05:05 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 01/27/2010 01:20 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I have two nearly identical boards, with very different behavior.
>>>
>>> Older 8347 (PVR: 0x80830011)
>>> New 8347 (PVR: 0x80830031)
>>
>> I lied (more precisely I was lied to and I passed it on - I've never
>> seen these boards in person, just worked on them from thousands of
>> miles away).
>>
>> The boards have more than a rev difference:
>> OLD - 8347EA (SVR: 0x80540011, PVR: 0x80830011)
>> NEW - 8343E (SVR: 0x80570030, PVR: 0x80830031)
>
> This turned out to be a powerup/strapping issue. This is now fixed
> and the SVR is 0x80550030 on the failing board. No change in behavior.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>

Even more data; it turns out that after the first write to the USB/DR
port status/control register, the processor is dead :-(  Using a BDI:

** Dump the USB/DR machine registers
asp8347>md 0xff023100
ff023100 : 40000001 11000100 06000000 00000000  @...............
ff023110 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023120 : 01000000 86010000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023130 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023140 : 00000800 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023150 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023160 : 10100000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023170 : 00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023180 : 01000000 00000090 00000000 00000000  ................
ff023190 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff0231a0 : 00000000 20100000 00000000 00000000  .... ...........
ff0231b0 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff0231c0 : 80008000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff0231d0 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff0231e0 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
ff0231f0 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................

** Write to the port status/control register
asp8347>mm 0xff023184 0x80

** Display the USB/DR registers
asp8347>md 0xff023100
# SAP: read access failed

This of course works fine on the 1.1 silicon.

>>
>> Could this have any bearing on the problems?
>>
>>> I've tried a number of kernels (vintages) on both with wild results.
>>>
>>> 2.6.20 - Same kernel works on both(*)
>>> 2.6.28 - Kernel runs great on OLD, machine check on NEW
>>> 2.6.32.6 - Ditto
>>>
>>> The problem occurs (only on the new silicon) during the USB host
>>> initialization. The root hub is found and initialized, then the
>>> EHCI subsystem is reset (to force it to find siblings on the bus).
>>> This results in a machine check at the point where the PHY is
>>> being reinitialized.
>>>
>>> I've peppered the driver with messages - here's what I see:
>>>
>>> ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.272
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.296
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.299
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_reinit.257
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.192
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.207
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.215
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.220
>>> ********** mpc83xx_setup_phy.163
>>> ********** mpc83xx_setup_phy.180
>>> ********** mpc83xx_setup_phy.182
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.238
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.245
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.249
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.251
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_reinit.259
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8961
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.574
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8961
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.574
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_reinit.261
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.301
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: irq 39, io base 0xff022000
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
>>> usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>> hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 40966
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.637
>>> hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 40960
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.642
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8963
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.805
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8963
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.805
>>> usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
>>> usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
>>> usb usb1: Product: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller
>>> usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.28 ehci_hcd
>>> usb usb1: SerialNumber: fsl-ehci.0
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller
>>> fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.272
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.296
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_setup.299
>>> ********** ehci_fsl_reinit.257
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.192
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.207
>>> ********** mpc83xx_usb_setup.215
>>> ********** mpc83xx_setup_phy.163
>>> ********** mpc83xx_setup_phy.180
>>> MACHINE CHECK - so dead it can't even print the message!
>>>
>>> At this point, it should carry on like this:
>>>
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8963
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.805
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 41728
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.648
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 8961
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.574
>>> usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>> hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
>>> hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
>>> usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
>>> usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
>>> usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.559 - req: 41728
>>> ********** ehci_hub_control.648
>>>
>>> You can see that it successfully found the connected external HUB.
>>>
>>> Any ideas why this happens? This [basic] code used to work (2.6.20)
>>> on both platforms. I know that's a long time ago, but MACHINE CHECK??
>>>
>>> (*) To get this platform to run 2.6.20, I had to patch the CPU tables
>>> to recognize it as 8347 (kernels of that vintage relied on the SVR to
>>> make choices, not PVR)
>>>
>>
>

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