From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
"open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
Raymond Tan <raymond.tan@intel.com>,
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] serial: 8250_dwlib: RS485 HW half duplex support
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 14:16:56 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6931d6ad-7520-b585-a8ba-35349e730bb@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YiZfdlw0A75cojCx@smile.fi.intel.com>
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 08:18:54PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > That's for DT platforms, but I suppose you've got ACPI. Not sure
> > how it's handled there, the ACPI 6.4 spec contains a "UART Serial Bus
> > Connection Resource Descriptor" but nothing on RS-485, so I guess
> > the only option is to use regular DT properties in a _DSD object?
>
> Which make me think that this series needs an additional patch to
> describe RS485 enumeration for ACPI case (somewhere in
> Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst IIRC the filename).
>
> ...
>
> > > I initially had additional version check here while developing this
> > > patch series but it seemed to not provide any added value due those
> > > other factors that need to be considered.
> >
> > Here's another idea:
> >
> > Read TCR register on ->probe. It's POR value is 0x6 if RS-485 is
> > supported by the chip, else 0x0. (Page 220 of the 4.01a spec says
> > UCV register does not exist if additional features are not implemented
> > and reading from this register address returns 0, I suppose the same
> > applies to TCR if RS-485 is not implemented.)
> >
> > Since the driver may change the polarity in the TCR register, be sure
> > to write 0x6 to it on ->remove so that you can still correctly detect
> > presence of the RS-485 feature after unbind/rebind of the driver.
>
> What to do in the case when DE pin is muxed to RTS and locked in pin control
> IP by firmware (no possibility to change the muxing in the OS)?
The SoC also has a pin to select between RS485 and RS232. With a combo
transceiver, TCR-based heuristic just runs into the same problems as the
version-based one did.
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i.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-08 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-02 9:55 [PATCH 0/7] Add RS485 support to DW UART Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] serial: 8250_dwlib: RS485 HW half duplex support Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-06 18:48 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-06 22:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-07 9:19 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-07 19:18 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-07 19:39 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-08 12:16 ` Ilpo Järvinen [this message]
2022-03-08 12:22 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-08 12:59 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-08 14:50 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-08 14:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-08 20:30 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-09 9:51 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-07 10:54 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-09 8:52 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-09 12:19 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-09 12:59 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [PATCH 2/7] serial: 8250_dwlib: RS485 HW full " Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-06 18:51 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-07 9:22 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] serial: 8250_dwlib: Implement SW half " Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-06 19:21 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-06 22:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] dt_bindings: snps-dw-apb-uart: Add RS485 Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-02 17:47 ` Rob Herring
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] serial: General support for multipoint addresses Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-06 19:40 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-07 9:48 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-09 19:05 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-03-10 12:29 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2022-03-10 14:09 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-03-02 9:56 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] serial: 8250_dwlib: Support for 9th bit multipoint addressing Ilpo Järvinen
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