[PATCH v3] i2c: omap: improve duty cycle on SCL

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Thu Aug 13 07:36:51 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25:58PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:09:59AM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> > > > Hello Felipe,
> > > > 
> > > > On 17/06/15 21:31, ext Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > > With this patch we try to be as close to 50%
> > > > > duty cycle as possible. The reason for this
> > > > > is that some devices present an erratic behavior
> > > > > with certain duty cycles.
> > > > > 
> > > > > One such example is TPS65218 PMIC which fails
> > > > > to change voltages when running @ 400kHz and
> > > > > duty cycle is lower than 34%.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The idea of the patch is simple:
> > > > > 
> > > > > calculate desired scl_period from requested scl
> > > > > and use 50% for tLow and 50% for tHigh.
> > > > > 
> > > > > tLow is calculated with a DIV_ROUND_UP() to make
> > > > > sure it's slightly higher than tHigh and to make
> > > > > sure that we end up within I2C specifications.
> > > > 
> > > > if you refuse to change the calculations to achieve maximum possible
> > > > bus rate (as I've shown you with SCLL=9 and SCLH=9), maybe you want to
> > > > change the description? Because you are doing something else than is
> > > > written here. You are only in spec because you are not doing 50% duty
> > > > cycle. And you didn't mention here that you lower the bus speed below
> > > > 400kHz to achieve this.
> > > 
> > > and there's a comment where the calculation goes which states "as close
> > > to 50% as possible but we make sure tLow is higher than tHigh so we're
> > > still within spec".
> > 
> > So, is that ready to go in for-next?
> 
> should be.

ping ?

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balbi
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