Re: [PATCH 1/11] ARM: tegra: add function to control the GPU rail clamp

[Vince Hsu]

On 12/31/2014 12:42 AM, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Montag, den 29.12.2014, 10:49 +0800 schrieb Vince Hsu:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > That's a read fence to assure the post of the previous writes through
> > > > Tegra interconnect. (copy-paster from
> > > > https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/tegra.git/+/28b107dcb3aa122de8e94e48af548140d519298f)
> > > I see what it does, the question is more about why this is needed.
> > > What is the Tegra interconnect? According to the TRM the Tegra contains
> > > some standard AXI <-> AHB <-> APB bridges. That a read is needed to
> > > assure the write is posted to the APB bus seems to imply that there is
> > > some write buffering in one of those bridges. Can we get this documented
> > > somewhere?
> > The TRM does mention a read after the write. Check the section 32.2.2.3.
> Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be included in the public TRM. It
> would be nice if this could be documented either in the next version of
> the TRM or as a public Appnote.
It should be in the latest public TRM. Could you check again?

Thanks,
Vince

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