AACI broken with commit 29a4f2d3

[Philby John]

On 03/27/2010 02:41 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:37:51 +0530,
> Philby John wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 14:12 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 14:08 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:54:45PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But the above says "the power down control and status register (0x26) of
>>>>> the CODEC". So this refers to the AC97 registers rather than the AACI
>>>>> registers. Your patch reads from the AACI registers. The AC97 registers
>>>>> I think are access with aaci_ac97_(read|write) functions.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, they are - but note that some CODECs will power up in low power
>>>> mode and therefore attempts to read immediately after the controller
>>>> probe function starts executing may fail until the controller has issued
>>>> a warm reset.
>>>
>>> Yes, possibly. But my point is that accessing offset 0x26 in the AACI
>>> register space has nothing to do with the AC97 power register. At offset
>>> 0x26 in the AACI register space you find the top part of the AACIIE2
>>> register (if you can even read this as a half-word).
>>>
>> > From b411099000bbbb9b076168ee98742a36018a67ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Philby John<pjohn at in.mvista.com>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:41:06 +0530
>> Subject: [PATCH] Fix alignment faults on ARM Cortex introduced by commit 29a4f2d3
>>
>> The commit 29a4f2d3 used writel() at offset 0x26 which is
>> half-word aligned causing unaligned exceptions on a
>> Cortex-A8. The original patch solved the "aaci-pl041 fpga:04:
>> ac97 read back fail" issue on a soft reset. Reading from any
>> arbitrary aaci register seems to solve this issue.
>
> Then, isn't this a generic problem like PCI write-posting?
>

Yes, it does look like. Takashi, do you know of a better way than 
reading from an aaci register?

Regards,
Philby