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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 11/15] serial: imx: initialized DMA w/o HW flow enabled
Hi Sebastian

On 04/09/2015 09:00 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2014-12-09 18:11:32 [+0900], Jiada Wang wrote:
>> From: Anton Bondarenko <anton_bondarenko@mentor.com>
>>
>> DMA mode for UART can be used even w/o HW flow control with RTS/CTS.
>> So it need to be initialized and enabled earlier.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anton Bondarenko <anton_bondarenko@mentor.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang <jiada_wang@mentor.com>
> How was this tested? I read you used the Sambe IMX6Q. I have here the
> Wandboard which is IMX6D and a PBAB01 which is IMX6Q. Both have the same
> issue with this patch, that is once DMA is enabled I receive the data in
> question plus one extra byte which is 0x00.
> That extra byte was not part of transaction. After that, the SDMA driver
> is handling interrupts like crazing and feeding one byte data (usually
> 0x00 but sometimes 0x02 not sure if this new or whatever was there
> before) to the core. Those one byte transaction are bogus of course.
>
> My question is how was this tested. Before your patch none of my boards
> were using DMA because RTS/CTS is not in use and this was a key
> requirement. Now SDMA goes crazy. Is there a SDMA firmware required for
> this to work?
We tested the patch set with our modified kernel tree,
and I find upstream kernel is not building SDMA firmware,
I will submit another patch to add it.

Thanks,
Jiada
> Sebastian



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