[U-Boot] OMAP3 i2c issues on IGEP, u-boot 2013.10

[Enric Balletbo Serra]

Hi Thomas,

2013/11/27 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Enric Balletbo Serra,
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:56:15 +0100, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote:
>
>> 2013/11/27 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > We've recently updated from u-boot 2013.04 to u-boot 2013.10 on our
>> > IGEP boards (OMAP3 based, U-Boot shows "OMAP36XX/37XX-GP ES1.2"), and
>> > we're seeing random I2C communication problems at startup.
>>
>> Right, I've reproduced the issue. Any OMAP3-based board affected for
>> this issue ?
>
> Not sure to understand your question: my paragraph above mentions the
> IGEP board as being the platform on which I'm seeing this. So indeed, a
> OMAP3-based board is affected. But maybe I misunderstood your question.
>

Oops, sorry, bad question :)

Anybody knows if other OMAP3-based boards are affected for this issue ?


>> > I see that 960187ffa125b3938fec4b827bd9e8c04a204af8 ("ARM: OMAP: I2C:
>> > New read, write and probe functions") has changed significantly the
>> > OMAP I2C driver. And it turns out that reverting this commit actually
>> > fixes the problem. No more error messages, no more hang at boot. The
>> > commit message says that it was tested on OMAP4, OMAP5 and AM335x, but
>> > apparently OMAP3 isn't working all that well with this commit.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>>
>> I'll try to investigate more.
>
> Thanks! In the mean time, I'll just keep this commit reverted.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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