[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] usb: dwc2: handle bcm2835 phys->virt address translations
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net
Fri Mar 13 18:02:49 CET 2015
Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> writes:
> BCM2835 bus addresses use the top 2 bits to determine whether peripherals
> use or bypass the GPU L1 and L2 cache. BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf states
> that:
>
> 0: L1 & L2 cached
> 4: L2 cache coherent (non allocaing)
> 8: L2 cached only
> c: Direct uncached.
>
> That document also states that "Software accessing RAM using the DMA
> engines must use bus addresses (base at 0xc0000000). However, this appears
> to be incorrect since it does not work in practice on the bcm2835
> (although it does on bcm2836). "usb start" causes some EABI function to
> call raise(8), presumably due to corrupted USB IN data (the converse is
> true on bcm2836; a value of 4 causes signals). However, I haven't
> investigated the cause.
>
> A value of 4 matches what the RPI Foundation's kernel; see the definition
> of _REAL_BUS_OFFSET in arch/arm/mach-bcm2708/include/mach/memory.h. With
> the code updated to implement a phys->bus translation by setting the top
> two bits of DWC2 DMA addresses to 4, USB keyboard support appears stable.
>
> A similar change is made for bcm2836 (RPi 2). I can't justify this value
> since it doesn't match the RPi Foundation kernel. However, it does appear
> to work for the built-in USB Ethernet at least.
>
> Ideally, the bcm2835 SoC support would provide some common function for
> any DMA-capable driver to call to perform the phys->bus translation,
> rather than placing ifdefs in each driver file. However, I can't find
> such a standard function in U-Boot.
Huh. Agreed that it seems like it should be 0xc top bits on both, but I
guess whatever works.
It does seem like we ought to have some vtophys / vtobus functions.
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