From: Chris Chiu <chiu@endlessm.com>
To: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
lee.jones@linaro.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@endlessm.com>
Subject: Re: Tweak I2C SDA hold time on GemniLake to make touchpad work
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:38:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB4CAwdRHQOiqrK5utgCzZKB-X+mDcJePBLa7o0rTWzAogo5vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3141a819-5964-4082-6f05-1926e16468b4@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:03 PM Jarkko Nikula
<jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
>
> On 9/3/19 11:18 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > +Jarkko
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:10:27PM +0800, Chris Chiu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We're working on the acer Gemnilake laptop TravelMate B118-M for
> >> touchpad not working issue. The touchpad fails to bring up and the
> >> i2c-hid ouput the message as follows
> >> [ 8.317293] i2c_hid i2c-ELAN0502:00: hid_descr_cmd failed
> >> We tried on latest linux kernel 5.3.0-rc6 and it reports the same.
> >>
> >> We then look into I2C signal level measurement to find out why.
> >> The following is the signal output from LA for the SCL/SDA.
> >> https://imgur.com/sKcpvdo
> >> The SCL frequency is ~400kHz from the SCL period, but the SDA
> >> transition is quite weird. Per the I2C spec, the data on the SDA line
> >> must be stable during the high period of the clock. The HIGH or LOW
> >> state of the data line can only change when the clock signal on the
> >> SCL line is LOW. The SDA period span across 2 SCL high, I think
> >> that's the reason why the I2C read the wrong data and fail to initialize.
> >>
> >> Thus, we treak the SDA hold time by the following modification.
> >>
> >> --- a/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c
> >> @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ static const struct intel_lpss_platform_info bxt_uart_info = {
> >> };
> >>
> >> static struct property_entry bxt_i2c_properties[] = {
> >> - PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("i2c-sda-hold-time-ns", 42),
> >> + PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("i2c-sda-hold-time-ns", 230),
> >> PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("i2c-sda-falling-time-ns", 171),
> >> PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("i2c-scl-falling-time-ns", 208),
> >> { },
> >>
> >> The reason why I choose sda hold time is by the Table 10 of
> >> https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/UM10204.pdf, the device
> >> must provide a hold time at lease 300ns and and 42 here is relatively
> >> too small. The signal measurement result for the same pin on Windows
> >> is as follows.
> >> https://imgur.com/BtKUIZB
> >> Comparing to the same result running Linux
> >> https://imgur.com/N4fPTYN
> >>
> >> After applying the sda hold time tweak patch above, the touchpad can
> >> be correctly initialized and work. The LA signal is shown as down below.
> >> https://imgur.com/B3PmnIp
> >>
> Could you try does attached patch work for you?
>
> It's from last year for another related issue but there platform was
> actually Apollo Lake instead of Gemini Lake but anyway it was found out
> that Windows uses different timing parameters than Linux on Gemini Lake.
>
> I didn't take patch forward back then due known Gemini Lake machines
> were working with the Broxton I2C timing parameters but now it's time if
> attached patch fixes the issue on your machine.
>
> Patch is from top of v5.3-rc7 but should probably apply also to older
> kernels.
>
> --
> Jarkko
Thanks, Jarkko, the patche works on my acer laptops.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-03 8:10 Tweak I2C SDA hold time on GemniLake to make touchpad work Chris Chiu
2019-09-03 8:18 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-09-03 12:03 ` Jarkko Nikula
2019-09-04 4:38 ` Chris Chiu [this message]
2019-09-04 5:54 ` Jarkko Nikula
2019-09-04 6:24 ` Chris Chiu
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