lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Jul]   [14]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/11] USB: OTG/DRD Core functionality
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:14:43PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> >> Hi Roger,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> wrote:
> >> > Usage model:
> >> > -----------
> >> >
> >> > - The OTG controller device is assumed to be the parent of
> >> > the host and gadget controller. It must call usb_otg_register()
> >> > before populating the host and gadget devices so that the OTG
> >> > core is aware that it is an OTG device before the host & gadget
> >> > register. The OTG controller must provide struct otg_fsm_ops *
> >> > which will be called by the OTG core depending on OTG bus state.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if the requirement that the OTG controller be the parent
> >> of the USB host/device-controllers makes sense. For some context, I'm
> >> working on adding dual-role support for Tegra210, specifically on a
> >> system with USB Type-C. On Tegra, the USB host-controller and USB
> >> device-controller are two separate IP blocks (XUSB host and XUSB
> >> device) with another, separate, IP block (XUSB padctl) for the USB PHY
> >> and OTG support. In the non-Type-C case, your OTG framework could
> >> work well, though it's debatable as to whether or not the XUSB padctl
> >> device should be a parent to the XUSB host/device-controller devices
> >> (currently it isn't - it's just a PHY provider). But in the Type-C
> >> case, it's an off-chip embedded controller that determines the
> >> dual-role status of the Type-C port, so the above requirement doesn't
> >> make sense at all.
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > I think your problem is how to add your core driver to manage device and
> > host functionality together, and once you find how (through padctl/type-c
> > controller) to do it based on current code, it will be clear how to use roger
> > proposal framework at that time.
> >
> > Most of current core drivers, we use extcon driver (through gpio) or USB
> > vbus/id pin (through internal registers) to manager roles.
>
> Right, currently I'm modeling the Type-C controller as an extcon
> device and handle the role-changes in the core drivers, but that
> doesn't really make sense for the non-Type-C case where we use the
> XUSB padctl controller and need a full OTG state-machine.

The full OTG FSM is only applied if your board needs it, you can
disable it through dts. Jun [1] and Roger's patchset are for it.

> Roger's new
> OTG/DRD framework would fit my situation perfectly since it makes the
> host/device-controller drivers independent from all the
> OTG/role-changing logic. The only issue is the requirement that the
> OTG/DRD controller be the parent device of the host/device
> controllers.
>

The core device is the parent for host/device device, the OTG core
just use the pointer of it, Roger does an example using dwc3 [2].

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg127110.html
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg126999.html
--

Best Regards,
Peter Chen


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-07-15 05:41    [W:0.055 / U:2.812 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site