Re: [PARPORT] ECP read - FIFO/DMA

From: Derek Bouius (dbouius@abio.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 14:15:52 EDT

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    Hello again,
    I have spent some more time getting ECP with DMA to work.
    For reference, I am using an HP vectra with a National PC 97317 Super I/O chip
    and the 2.3.99pre6 kernel.
    In the bios of the machine I leave the parallel port set to auto with ECP.
    If I insmod the parport_pc with no options, it doesn't come up with an
    interrupt or dma to use with ECP.
    But if I set irq=5 and dma=1, it doesn't complain and looks like this:

    0x278: FIFO is 16 bytes
    0x278: writeIntrThreshold is 8
    0x278: readIntrThreshold is 8
    0x278: PWord is 8 bits
    0x278: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
    0x278: ECP port cfgA=0x14 cfgB=0x40
    0x278: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other means> dma=<none or set by other
    means>
    parport0: PC-style at 0x278 (0x678), irq 5, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP,ECP,DMA]

    This all makes sense because of the cfgB value that is read from the super I/O
    chip. Maybe something has to be added for picking an IRQ, DMA channel, if the
    bios is in auto.

    So continuing... After the device is initialized, I try to write some data,
    then read some data from the device from the user space ppdev driver. The
    write seems to use dma but the read doesn't.
    I really need read DMA for my device. So looking at parport_pc and the rest of
    the parport code I realize that parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio is never used.
    So I added
    p->ops->ecp_read_data = parport_pc_ecp_read_block_pio;
    in the function parport_pc_probe_port (about line 2050 of parport_pc)

    Then, I can see on the scope that it uses hardware switching because my data
    rate is about 1 byte/usec, but then the machine freezes. So far it is hard to
    tell where it gets to, but I was wondering if this code has been tested, since
    I couldn't find it being called from anywhere...
    Am I on the right track?

    Thanks,
    Derek

    Tim Waugh wrote:

    > On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 07:00:15PM -0400, Derek Bouius wrote:
    >
    > > How can I confirm that the ppdev is using the DMA?
    >
    > If you are using the ppdev backport to 2.2, it isn't using DMA but is
    > doing it all in software. The current development kernel uses DMA,
    > and has ppdev integrated.
    >
    > The SIIG cards only do EPP in hardware I think (they were quite
    > helpful when I spoke to them---guess you have to pick a good time of
    > day!).
    >
    > Tim.
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