Re: [PATCH 00/14] Add support for FM radio in hcill and kill TI_ST

[Adam Ford]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:26 PM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:33 AM Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 09:20:10AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > On 12/21/18 2:17 AM, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > > This moves all remaining users of the legacy TI_ST driver to hcill (patches
> > > > 1-3). Then patches 4-7 convert wl128x-radio driver to a standard platform
> > > > device driver with support for multiple instances. Patch 7 will result in
> > > > (userless) TI_ST driver no longer supporting radio at runtime. Patch 8-11 do
> > > > some cleanups in the wl128x-radio driver. Finally patch 12 removes the TI_ST
> > > > specific parts from wl128x-radio and adds the required infrastructure to use it
> > > > with the serdev hcill driver instead. The remaining patches 13 and 14 remove
> > > > the old TI_ST code.
> > > >
> > > > The new code has been tested on the Motorola Droid 4. For testing the audio
> > > > should be configured to route Ext to Speaker or Headphone. Then you need to
> > > > plug headphone, since its cable is used as antenna. For testing there is a
> > > > 'radio' utility packages in Debian. When you start the utility you need to
> > > > specify a frequency, since initial get_frequency returns an error:
> > >
> > > What is the status of this series?
> > >
> > > Based on some of the replies (from Adam Ford in particular) it appears that
> > > this isn't ready to be merged, so is a v2 planned?
> >
> > Yes, a v2 is planned, but I'm super busy at the moment. I don't
> > expect to send something for this merge window. Neither LogicPD
> > nor IGEP use FM radio, so I can just remove FM support from the
> > TI_ST framework. Converting those platforms to hci_ll can be done
> > in a different patchset.
> >
> > If that was the only issue there would be a v2 already. But Marcel
> > Holtmann suggested to pass the custom packet data through the BT
> > subsystem, which is non-trivial (at least for me) :)
>
> I am running some tests today on the wl1283-st on the Logic PD Torpedo
> board.  Tony had suggested a few options, so I'm going to try those.
> Looking at those today.  If/when you have a V2, please CC me on it. If
> it's been posted, can you send me a link?  I would really like to see
> the st-kim driver go away so I'd like to resolve the issues with the
> torpedo board.

I have run a bunch of tests on the 5.1 kernel.  I am able to get the
firmware to load now and the hci0 goes up.  I was able to establish a
BLE connection to a TI Sensor Tag and read and write data to it with
good success on the wl1283.

Unfortunately, when I tried to do some more extensive testing over
classic Bluetooth, I got an error that repeats itself at seemingly
random intervals:
      Bluetooth: hci0: Frame reassembly failed (-84)

I can still scan and pair, but these Frame reassembly failed errors
appear to come and go.

Do we need to do anything to enable hardware handshaking?  In the
older st-kim driver, the pdata structure listed flow_cntrl=1.  The
i.MX boards use "uart-has-rtscts" in their device trees, but I don't
see anything like that for the omap3-uart driver.  I am not all that
familiar with the Bluetooth subsystem, so I am not sure what would
cause the Frame reassembly error.

adam
>
> thanks
>
> adam
> >
> > -- Sebastian