Hi Joe,
On 20/2/24 22:11, Joe Komlodi wrote:
> Changelog:
> This series adds some resets for SMBus and for the I2C core. Along with
> it, we make SMBus slave error printing a little more helpful.
>
> These reset issues were very infrequent, they would maybe occur in 1 out
> of hundreds of resets in our testing, but the way they happen is pretty
> straightforward.
>
> Basically as long as a reset happens in the middle of a transaction, the
> state of the old transaction would still partially be there after the
> reset. Once a new transaction comes in, the partial stale state can
> cause the new transaction to incorrectly fail.
Sorry for jumping late, at v4. I'm a bit confused by this series.
- AFAICT there is no in-band or RESET line with I2C, but
the AN10216 document mentions:
I2C Bus recovery
• Typical case is when masters fails when doing a read
operation in a slave
• SDA line is then non usable anymore because of the
“Slave-Transmitter” mode.
• Methods to recover the SDA line are:
– Reset the slave device (assuming the device has a
Reset pin)
– Use a bus recovery sequence to leave the “Slave-
Transmitter” mode
• Bus recovery sequence is done as following:
1 - Send 9 clock pulses on SCL line
2 - Ask the master to keep SDA High until the “Slave-
Transmitter” releases the SDA line to perform the
ACK operation
3 - Keeping SDA High during the ACK means that the
“Master-Receiver” does not acknowledge the previous
byte receive
4 - The “Slave-Transmitter” then goes in an idle state
5 - The master then sends a STOP command initializing
completely the bus
- For SMBus Specification Version 2.0:
3.1.4.2 Power-on reset
SMBus devices detect a power-on event in one of three ways:
• By detecting that power is being applied to the device,
• By an external reset signal that is being asserted or
• For self-powered or always powered devices, by detecting
that the SMBus is active (clock and data lines have gone
high after being low for more than 2 1/2 seconds).
Questions:
- Is the first patch "hw/i2c: core: Add reset" really for
I2C? Otherwise we could expand smbus form i2cbus, and have
this reset only for smbus.
- Should we model the "I2C bus recovery sequence" before
triggering reset?
- Shouldn't we model the smbus 2.5s timeout before triggering
the reset?
Thanks,
Phil.