[PATCH v3 0/3] i2c: at91: slave mode support

From: Ludovic Desroches
Date: Mon Jul 16 2018 - 05:44:19 EST


[Ludovic Desroches: see 'Changes in v3' section]

Based on the discussion we had on the i2c-linux list [1], I wrote a patch for
AT91 hardware and tried to fulfill the Linux I2C slave interface description
[2] as good as possible. This enables aforementioned hardware to act as an I2C
slave that can be accessed by a remote I2C master.

I have tested this patchset successfully on an ATSAMA5D27.

^ 3.3V ^ 3.3V
+-----------------------+ | | +-----------------------+
| Slave: ATSAMA5D27 | +-+ +-+ | Master: ATSAMA5D35 |
| with i2c-slave-eeprom | | | 100k | | 100k | with i2cset |
+-------------------+-+-+ +-+ +-+ +-+-+-------------------+
| | | | | |
| +------+---------|---(SDA)---+ |
+------------------+---(SCL)-----+

Schematic: Connection of slave and master with 100kOhm pullup resistors.

On the master the following BASH script has been used to stress the slave.

root@emblinux:~# cat ./stress.sh
#!/bin/bash
I=0
while true
do
if i2cset -y -r 1 0x64 0 $I w | grep mismatch
then
echo "$(date): Error in transmission ${I}"
fi
((I++))
if [ $I -eq 65536 ]
then
I=0
echo "$(date): Sent 65536 transmissions"
fi
done

After running the script for some time I had the following output. To me this
looks promising :)

root@emblinux:~# ./stress.sh
Thu Nov 9 13:58:45 CTE 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 14:35:20 CTE 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 15:12:11 CTE 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 15:49:04 CTE 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 16:26:00 CTE 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 17:03:07 UTC 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions
Thu Nov 9 17:40:15 UTC 2017: Sent 65536 transmissions

If you have some hardware with an at91-i2c interface included at hand, I really
would appreciate if you can run the test script on your hardware and test this
driver.

Best regards
Juergen


[Ludovic Desroches]
Changes in v3:
- rebase (cherry-pick was enough)
- fix checkpatch errors
- tests:
- hangs with a SAMA5D4 (master and slave on different busses) after about
100 transfers. It's the firs time I do this test.
- some mismatches with a SAMA5D4 as slave and a SAMA5D2 as master
I don't know if it's a regression. I don't remember having seen this
behavior previously.
I think it's worth taking those patches even if there are some possible
bugs. It'll allow to get more people using it and so to consolidate the
slave mode support.

Changes in v2:
- Implemented all suggestions made by Ludovic. (Thank you!)
- Reworked the IRQ handler completely. Have a look in patch 3 fort further
details.

[1] https://marc.info/?t=150824004800001&r=1&w=1
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface

Juergen Fitschen (3):
i2c: at91: segregate master mode specific code from probe and init
func
i2c: at91: split driver into core and master file
i2c: at91: added slave mode support

MAINTAINERS | 3 +-
drivers/i2c/busses/Makefile | 4 +
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-core.c | 380 +++++++++++++++++
.../i2c/busses/{i2c-at91.c => i2c-at91-master.c} | 453 +--------------------
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-slave.c | 147 +++++++
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.h | 179 ++++++++
6 files changed, 719 insertions(+), 447 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-core.c
rename drivers/i2c/busses/{i2c-at91.c => i2c-at91-master.c} (67%)
create mode 100644 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91-slave.c
create mode 100644 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.h

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