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Hi Krzysztof,
-----Original Message-----However the current mode is dynamic mode so for less than 255 we can use dynamic mode.(the current behavior will not change)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] i2c: xiic: Switch to Xiic standard mode for i2c-
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Hi Marek,
W dniu 29.06.2022 o 16:05, Marek Vasut pisze:
It seems to be the other way around - dynamic mode is limited to 255 bytes -[...]If I recall it right, the dynamic mode was supposed to handle
If those two modes only differ in software complexity but we are not
able to support only the simpler one and we have support for the more
complicated (standard mode) anyways, we know that standard mode can
handle or the cases while dynamic mode cannot, we also know that
dynamic mode is broken on some versions of the core, why do we
actually keep support for dynamic mode?
transfers longer than 255 Bytes, which the core cannot do in Standard
mode. It is needed e.g. by Atmel MXT touch controller. I spent a lot
of time debugging the race conditions in the XIIC, which I ultimately
fixed (the patches are upstream), but the long transfers I rather
fixed in the MXT driver instead.
I also recall there was supposed to be some update for the XIIC core
coming with newer vivado, but I might be wrong about that.
when you trigger dynamic mode you first write the address of the slave to
the FIFO, then you write the length as one byte so you can't request more
than 255 bytes. So *standard* mode is used for those messages. In other
words - dynamic mode is the one that is more limited
- everything that you can do in dynamic mode you can also do in standard
mode. So why don't we use standard mode always for everything?
Also the dynamic mode is nicer on the processor resources. We set the bytes and the controller takes care of
transferring.
However do not have any strong views open to suggestions.