[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/18] usb: xhci: Fix USB xHCI support on Intel platform

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 09:03:25 UTC 2017


Hi Marek,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently U-Boot xHCI driver does not work on Intel BayTrail SoC based
>> boards that have USB 3.0 ports. Trying to do a 'usb start' simply hangs
>> the board. This series fixes a bunch of xHCI driver issues to make it
>> work on Intel's platform.
>>
>> Issues identified in the U-Boot xHCI driver are really spec violations,
>> but apparently other xHCI IPs found on ARM SoCs (mainly Synopsis IP?)
>> are quite tolerant with these spec violations, or IOW those IPs don't
>> respect the xHCI spec. While it comes to Intel platform, it just breaks.
>>
>> Note xHCI interrupt transfer is still not supported in this series, as
>> it has been there since the original commit of xHCI support for years.
>>
>> Tested on Intel MinnowMax board with the following USB devices:
>> - Dell USB 1.1 keyboard
>> - Dell USB 2.0 mouse
>> - Netac USB 2.0 flash disk
>> - JetFlash USB 3.0 flash disk
>> - GenesysLogic 4-port USB 3.0 hub, with an integrated Realtek USB
>>   ethernet chipset connected to one of its downstream port
>>
>> Testing were performed on both ports (2.0 port and 3.0 port), and both
>> ports are connected to xHCI (configure MinnowMax to enable xHCI).
>>
>> Testing results:
>> - DELL USB 1.1 keyboard and 2.0 mouse can be enumerated on both ports
>> - USB 2.0 and 3.0 flash disks work fine (enumerated, read/write) on
>>   both ports
>> - GenesysLogic USB 3.0 hub can be enumerated on 2.0 port as a 2.0
>>   hub, and the integrated Realtek USB ethernet chipset enumerated as
>>   well. USB 2.0 and 3.0 flash disks connected via the hub can be
>>   enumerated, but DELL USB 1.1 keyboard and 2.0 mouse cannot.
>> - GenesysLogic USB 3.0 hub can be enumerated on 3.0 port as a 3.0 hub,
>>   but the integrated Realtek USB ethernet chipset cannot be enumerated.
>>   None of devices connected via the hub can be enumerated. U-Boot xHCI
>>   driver just throws BUG_ON() on the event TRB handling.
>>
>> This indicates that USB 3.0 hub support in U-Boot is seriously broken.
>> So far this series tries to fix some of the issues identified, but the
>> USB 3.0 hub is still not working. This will be left as future work.
>>
>> The USB 3.0 hub work includes: port status translation, USB 3.0 newly
>> added "Set Hub Depth" request support, xHCI codes update to fill in
>> hub description fields in the input slot context when issuing commands
>> to xHC, etc.
>>
>> This series is available at u-boot-x86/xhci-working for testing.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Change to use uint and also 'normal' variable name packet_size.
>> - Update description to use "PCI-based"
>> - Remove CONFIG_USB_XHCI_PCI from config_whitelist.txt
>> - Drop two x86 patches that were already applied to u-boot-x86
>
> Do you have any comments regarding to this first series for xHCI? If
> not, I will rebase my series and send out for you to apply soon.

Do you have any comments to all the 3 xHCI series? If not, I will
rebase again soon for you to apply.

Regards,
Bin


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