Hi Tim,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 11:48, Tim Harvey <thar...@gateworks.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 7:59 AM Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 11:57, Tim Harvey <thar...@gateworks.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > According to the comment block "The default {addr} parameter is one byte
> > > (.1) which works well for memories and registers with 8 bits of address
> > > space."
> > >
> > > While this is true for legacy I2C a default length of -1 is being passed
> > > for DM_I2C which results in a usage error.
> > >
> > > Restore the documented behavior by always using a default alen of 1.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <thar...@gateworks.com>
> > >
> > > This is an RFC as I'm unclear if we want to restore the legacy usage or
> > > enforce a new usage (in which case the comment block should be updated)
> > > and I'm not clear if this is documented in other places. If the decision
> > > is to enforce a new usage then it is unclear to me how to specifiy the
> > > default alen as there is no command for that (i2c alen [len]?).
> > > ---
> > > cmd/i2c.c | 10 ----------
> > > 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> > Can you dig into this a little more on your board? DEFAULT_ADDR_LEN is
> > set to -1 so that by default it does not get set by the command, and
> > the existing alen is used.
> >
> > This is necessary for driver model, since the alen can be set by the
> > peripheral device and we don't want to overwrite it:
> >
> > if (!ret && alen != -1)
> > ret = i2c_set_chip_offset_len(dev, alen);
> >
>
> Simon,
>
> Here's some annotated debug prints added where chip_offset is passed/set:
> Model: Gateworks Venice GW73xx-0x i.MX8MM Development Kit
> DRAM: 1 GiB
> i2c_chip_of_to_plat gsc@20 offset_len=1
> i2c_chip_of_to_plat pmic@69 offset_len=1
> i2c_get_chip i2c@30a20000 0x51 offset_len=1
> i2c_bind_driver i2c@30a20000 offset_len=1
> i2c_set_chip_offset_len generic_51 offset_len=1
> dm_i2c_read generic_51 offset=0 offset_len=1
> i2c_setup_offset 0x51 offset=0 offset_len=1
> Core: 209 devices, 27 uclasses, devicetree: separate
> ...
> u-boot=> i2c dev 0 && i2c md 0x51 0 50
> Setting bus to 0
> i2c - I2C sub-system
>
> Usage:
> i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel] - show I2C bus info
> ...
>
> So the chip I noticed this issue with is 0x51 which an atmel,24c02
> compatible eeprom which imx8mm-venice-gw700x.dtsi defines 4 of
> (i2c1-0x50, i2c1-0x51, i2c1-0x52, i2c1-0x53). You can see above
> i2c1-0x51 (i2c1=i2c@30a20000) is accessed early as it holds the board
> model information and at that point in time it's accessed with alen=1
> (which I specify in board/gateworks/venice/eeprom.c:eeprom_read()) but
> by the time the 'i2c md 0x51 0 50' comes around
> i2c_get_chip_offset_len() returns 0 for this device. The other eeprom
> devices on i2c1 are never accessed by a driver so they would never
> have a 'default' alen set.
OK I see,
>
> Where is the initial setting of alen supposed to have come?
The "u-boot,i2c-offset-len" property in the device tree.
Regards,
Simon
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tim
>
> >
> > > diff --git a/cmd/i2c.c b/cmd/i2c.c
> > > index bd04b14024be..c57271479e81 100644
> > > --- a/cmd/i2c.c
> > > +++ b/cmd/i2c.c
> > > @@ -118,17 +118,7 @@ static uchar i2c_no_probes[] =
> > > CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES;
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > #define DISP_LINE_LEN 16
> > > -
> > > -/*
> > > - * Default for driver model is to use the chip's existing address length.
> > > - * For legacy code, this is not stored, so we need to use a suitable
> > > - * default.
> > > - */
> > > -#if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(DM_I2C)
> > > -#define DEFAULT_ADDR_LEN (-1)
> > > -#else
> > > #define DEFAULT_ADDR_LEN 1
> > > -#endif
> > >
> > > #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(DM_I2C)
> > > static struct udevice *i2c_cur_bus;
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
