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| author | Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@weinmann.de> | 2011-11-08 11:49:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> | 2012-09-12 14:49:13 +0200 |
| commit | fac368a040484293006bb488e67972aafcf88ec7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c132f85cd1a0df4cb1dedcd48d90d2bbb15e6b8 /drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | |
| parent | a879e9c34b93ee43f5caa7f94eb17e7af4f6ef50 (diff) | |
i2c: at91: add new driver
This driver has the following properties compared to the old driver:
1. Support for multiple interfaces.
2. Interrupt driven I/O as opposed to polling/busy waiting.
3. Support for _one_ repeated start (Sr) condition, which is enough
for most real-world applications including all SMBus transfer types.
(The hardware does not support issuing arbitrary Sr conditions on the
bus.)
testing: SoC: at91sam9g45
- BQ20Z80 battery SMBus client.
- on a 2.6.38 kernel with several i2c clients (temp-sensor,
audio-codec, touchscreen-controller, w1-bridge, io-expanders)
Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Voss <n.voss@weinmann.de>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Tested-by: Hubert Feurstein <h.feurstein@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
[wsa: squashed with the following patches from Ludovic to have some flaws
fixed:
i2c: at91: use managed resources
i2c: at91: add warning about transmission issues for some devices
i2c: at91: use an id table for SoC dependent parameters
]
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig index b4aaa1bd672..da77c37caf1 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig @@ -290,18 +290,21 @@ comment "I2C system bus drivers (mostly embedded / system-on-chip)" config I2C_AT91 tristate "Atmel AT91 I2C Two-Wire interface (TWI)" - depends on ARCH_AT91 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN + depends on ARCH_AT91 && EXPERIMENTAL help This supports the use of the I2C interface on Atmel AT91 processors. - This driver is BROKEN because the controller which it uses - will easily trigger RX overrun and TX underrun errors. Using - low I2C clock rates may partially work around those issues - on some systems. Another serious problem is that there is no - documented way to issue repeated START conditions, as needed + A serious problem is that there is no documented way to issue + repeated START conditions for more than two messages, as needed to support combined I2C messages. Use the i2c-gpio driver - unless your system can cope with those limitations. + unless your system can cope with this limitation. + + Caution! at91rm9200, at91sam9261, at91sam9260, at91sam9263 devices + don't have clock stretching in transmission mode. For that reason, + you can encounter underrun issues causing premature stop sendings if + the latency to fill the transmission register is too long. If you + are facing this situation, use the i2c-gpio driver. config I2C_AU1550 tristate "Au1550/Au1200/Au1300 SMBus interface" |