RE: [PATCH v5 11/15] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix ecspi1 rx dma not work on i.mx8mm

[Robin Gong]

On 2019-9-24 21:28 Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Robin,
> 
> > From: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
> >
> > Because the number of ecspi1 rx event on i.mx8mm is 0, the condition
> > check ignore such special case without dma channel enabled, which
> > caused
> > ecspi1 rx works failed. Actually, no need to check event_id0/event_id1
> > and replace checking 'event_id1' with 'DMA_DEV_TO_DEV', so that
> > configure
> > event_id1 only in case DEV_TO_DEV.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
> > Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
> 
> I have a custom board with i.MX8MM and SPI flash on ecspi1. I'm currently
> testing with v5.3 and as SPI didn't work, I tried two different things:
> 
> 1. Removing 'dmas' and 'dma-names' from the ecspi1 node in imx8mm.dtsi,
>     to use PIO instead of DMA. This works as expected and the driver
>     boots with the following messages:
> 
>         spi_imx 30820000.spi: dma setup error -19, use pio
>         m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
>         spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
> 
> 2. Applying your patchset and use DMA. In this case, the flash also
>     works fine, but there are some error messages printed while booting:
> 
>         spi_master spi0: I/O Error in DMA RX
>         m25p80 spi0.0: SPI transfer failed: -110
>         spi_master spi0: failed to transfer one message from queue
>         m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
>         spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
> 
> It would be great to get your patches merged and fix SPI + DMA, but for
> i.MX8MM, we need to get rid of the error messages. Do you have an idea,
> what's wrong?
Could you check if the length of spi message is bigger than fifo_size during
spi_nor probe? If yes, at that time maybe sdma firmware not loaded.
if (transfer->len < spi_imx->devtype_data->fifo_size)
> Thanks,
> Frieder