Re: [PATCH] i2c: aspeed: Retain delay/setup/hold values when configuring bus frequency

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Aug 28 2017 - 12:07:10 EST


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 04:51:02PM +0930, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> In addition to the base, low and high clock configuration, the AC timing
> register #1 on the AST2400 houses fields controlling:
>
> 1. tBUF: Minimum delay between Stop and Start conditions
> 2. tHDSTA: Hold time for the Start condition
> 3. tACST: Setup time for Start and Stop conditions, and hold time for the
> Repeated Start condition
>
> These values are defined in hardware on the AST2500 and therefore don't
> need to be set.
>
> aspeed_i2c_init_clk() was performing a direct write of the generated
> clock values rather than a read/mask/modify/update sequence to retain
> tBUF, tHDSTA and tACST, and therefore cleared the tBUF, tHDSTA and tACST
> fields on the AST2400. This resulted in a delay/setup/hold time of 1
> base clock, which in some configurations is not enough for some devices
> (e.g. the MAX31785 fan controller, with an APB of 48MHz and a desired
> bus speed of 100kHz).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-next, thanks! I even considered for-current but it does
not apply there. So, I leave the backporting for the interested parties
:)

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