[PATCH 2/7 v6] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use double-buffered writes

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Mar 28 11:41:21 PDT 2012


On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:26:34 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org> wrote:
> The GMBUS controller GMBUS3 register is double-buffered.  Take advantage
> of this  by writing two 4-byte words before the first wait for HW_RDY.
> This helps keep the GMBUS controller from becoming idle during long writes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org>

"For byte counts that are greater than four bytes, this register will be
written with subsequent data only after the HW_RDY status bit is set"

Hmm, I had interpretted that as should only be. But if you take into
account that the register is indeed double-buffered, it does make sense
that the hardware itself is only updated after the HW_RDY signal.
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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