Re: [PATCH] Revert "spi: omap2-mcspi: Set FIFO DMA trigger level to word length"

From: David Lechner
Date: Mon Jan 14 2019 - 18:50:39 EST


On 1/14/19 6:30 AM, Vignesh R wrote:


On 14/01/19 2:19 AM, David Lechner wrote:
This reverts commit b682cffa3ac6d9d9e16e9b413c45caee3b391fab.

That commit breaks displays using tinydrm drivers, such as ili9225.

It causes corruption in the image that is displayed (it looks like only
1/2 of the framebuffer data is sent, the other half of the display
remains blank.)

The following error appears multiple times:

ili9225 spi1.0: EOW timed out

Eventually, the system locks up without any additional errors.


Oops, that's unfortunate. I see ili9225 is using bits_per_word = 16.
I believe commit b682cffa3ac6d9d broke spi_transfers where
bits_per_word anything other than 8 bits.
I don't have ili9225 HW but was able emulate this condition using a SPI
flash as slave on AM335x and successfully reproduced the issue. Could
you test if this diff[1] helps in fixing the regression without needing
to revert commit b682cffa3ac6d9d?

Yes, this changes fixes the problem. Thanks!


If below diff does not help, then could you post logs of types of
spi_transfers being queued by ili9225 driver? I guess you can dump them
by enabling DEBUG option in tinydrm-helpers.c.
Also which TI SoC are you using?

I'm using BeagleBone Green, so AM335x as well.