On 11/12/2018 19:22, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 12/11/18 11:12 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 12/11/18 10:41 AM, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:

On 11/12/2018 18:10, Stephen Warren wrote:
On 12/11/18 2:44 AM, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:

On 11/12/2018 05:41, Heiko Schocher wrote:
Hello Stephen,

Am 10.12.2018 um 19:23 schrieb Stephen Warren:
The following commit:

dm: i2c: Make i2c_get_chip_for_busnum() fail if the chip is not detected     i2c_get_chip_for_busnum() really should check the presence of the chip on     the bus. Most of the users of this function assume that this is done.

... causes a boot failure on NVIDIA Jetson TX2:

:-(

Thanks for detecting so fast!

U-Boot 2019.01-rc1-00220-g7ff485c68b7e (Dec 10 2018 - 11:20:41 -0700)

TEGRA186
Model: NVIDIA P2771-0000-500
DRAM:  7.8 GiB
tegra_ivc_read_get_next_frame() timed out (-12)
tegra_board_init: Cannot find MAX77620 I2C chip
initcall sequence 00000000fffa95a8 failed at call 0000000080083480 (err=-110)
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

This may be due to the fact the bus in question is implemented by RPC to a separate CPU, and that mechanism hasn't been used with probing before. In general though, there's not guarantee that probing will work even on a local/native I2C bus, since different chips don't support all probe methods (see i2c-detect in Linux, which supports various different probing methods due to this), so I'm rather surprised this change was implemented. Is it really necessary? I believe we should revert it.

The probe method is not the same in u-boot as in i2c-detect. In u-boot there is no data transfer, the probe only sends the address on the bus and fails if the device does not respond with a ACK (or if something else goes wrong). Every I2C device supports this kind of probe by design.

Errors could happen though:

- device not present, or not powered up or in reset state

- bus not ready (in your case, maybe the CPU doing the actual work is not ready)

- bus speed too high.

In all those cases this could be fixed in the board specific code.


While I agree that a commit should not break platforms, I'm not convinced that reverting the commit is the right solution: in tegra_board_init() the call to i2c_get_chip_for_busnum() is followed by a call to dm_i2c_write(). Assuming that we remove the offending commit, i2c_get_chip_for_busnum() would not fail anymore, but in this case the following call to dm_i2c_write() should fail. If it doesn't then I suspect that there is something wrong in the tegra I2C bus driver that makes it unable to transfer only the address word.

Yes, I imagine that our other CPU doesn't support zero-length transfers. However, that's not going to change. Our only choice is not to do this unnecessary probing.

Even if we were going to modify the Tegra I2C bus driver to solve or work around this, we would still need to:

a) Revert the change.
b) Develop the fix.
c) Re-apply the original change.

... to reduce the time window where the code is broken. Right now everyone working on Tegra U-Boot is rather swamped so spending time on fixing this regression is rather annoying...

How about implementing the  probe_chip() callback.

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/tegra186_bpmp_i2c.c b/drivers/i2c/tegra186_bpmp_i2c.c
index b4fff43..6256d27 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/tegra186_bpmp_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/tegra186_bpmp_i2c.c
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ static int tegra186_bpmp_i2c_xfer(struct udevice *dev, struct i2c_msg *msg,
         return 0;
  }

+static tegra186_bpmp_probe_chip(struct udevice *bus, uint chip_addr, uint chip_flags)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+
  static int tegra186_bpmp_i2c_probe(struct udevice *dev)
  {
         struct tegra186_bpmp_i2c *priv = dev_get_priv(dev);
@@ -101,6 +106,7 @@ static int tegra186_bpmp_i2c_probe(struct udevice *dev)

  static const struct dm_i2c_ops tegra186_bpmp_i2c_ops = {
         .xfer = tegra186_bpmp_i2c_xfer,
+       .probe_chip = tegra186_bpmp_probe_chip,
  };

That's fine by me. I guess it'll cause some shell commands to give odd results, but if it makes the system boot that's OK.

Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>

You need to add "int" return type to:
+static tegra186_bpmp_probe_chip(struct ...

I note that there are many many other I2C bus drivers that don't implement .probe_chip, for example:

./drivers/rtc/i2c_rtc_emul.c
./drivers/i2c/i2c-uniphier-f.c
./drivers/i2c/cros_ec_tunnel.c
./drivers/i2c/ast_i2c.c
./drivers/i2c/sandbox_i2c.c
./drivers/i2c/meson_i2c.c
./drivers/i2c/mv_i2c.c
./drivers/i2c/at91_i2c.c
... I stopped looking at the grep results, so there are more I didn't bother listing here.

It is fine as long as they support xfer with a 0 length message.

I'll post the patch with your tested-by.

Thanks


I think you should fix the DM I2C core to print an error/warning message if a driver is registered without .probe_chip being implemented. Otherwise, many other boards will have the same issue that Jetson does.



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