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StrongARM SA-1100 USB function Driver
Ward Willats <ward.willats@extenex.com> -  08Mar01

1. History
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Brad Parker <brad@parker.boston.ma.us> ported the DEC/Compaq "Itsy"
SA-1100 USB Function driver to the 2.4.x code base in late 2000, for
use as an "ethernet over usb" link. His original notes are here in
section 4. Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> rewrote the transmitter and
reciver (endpoints 1 and 2) in late 2000 to use the standard SA DMA
API and I added a bulk character interface and reworked the control
control module code and rewrote endpoint zero in early 2001.

This release (22Feb01) is the first that completely separates
client modules (usb-eth.c and usb-char.c) from the SA-1100 USB core.
(usb_ctl, usb_ep0, usb_send and usb_receive)and makes the whole
mess a module. Oleg Drokin has done a huge amount of work, fixing
things I break and adding support for the generic usbnet driver
from the AC tree.

2. Usage
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Turn on CONFIG_SA1100_USB_NETLINK to use the "ethernet over usb"
functionality. Turn it off to use the character oriented
interface. The character driver currently uses mknod c 10 240.

Programming:
The public interface is in sa1100_usb.h. For a client USB service
to use the SA-1100 USB core driver it should:

1. Call sa1100_usb_open() to get the usb core assigned to it.

2. Setup descriptors as appropriate for the task at hand. Esp.
important are endpoint max packet lengths, vendor and product IDs,
and type of endpoint (bulk or interrupt). Call
sa1100_get_descriptor_ptr() to get this.

3. Call sa1100_usb_start() to actually start the usb hardware.
At this time the host will configure the device.

...at shutdown...

4. Call sa1100_usb_stop() to stop the USB core.
5. Call sa1100_usb_close() to free the core for use by another
client.

3. Netlink Usage
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StrongARM SA-1100 USB function "ethernet over usb driver"
Brad Parker <brad@parker.boston.ma.us>

I ported the DEC "Itsy" usb "ethernet over usb driver" code to the 2.4.x
base and made some enhacements and bug fixes.  This code has 2 sides and
implements a simple "ethernet over usb" functionality.

function (SA1100) side:
- the driver has two endpoints and uses interrupt and bulk transfer to
receive/send packets.  the driver does not require any other usb code
and should work on most any sa1100.

host (SA1111) side:
- because the SA1111 usb host is not working yet I tested this driver
(usb-net-host.c) on a 2.2.14 based PC with the latest usb backport.
It has been fully converted to use URBs and worked well with my UHCI
based controller.

TESTING:

To test you need an assabet on the 'function' side, a PC on the 'host'
side and a USB A-B cable to connect them together.

Boot a kernel on the assabet with "USB function and net-host support"
(CONFIG_SA1100_USB) turned on.  This will define an interface named
"usbf".  Once it's booted you can setup the interface with

	mount -t proc /proc /proc
	/sbin/ifconfig usbf 1.1.1.2

I used a 2.2.14 kernel on a x86 PC for the host side.  It has a built
in UHCI usb controller chip.  I installed the latest USB backport from
http://www.linux-usb.org onto the 2.2.14 kernel sources and turned on
"USB net-host" (CONFIG_USB_NET_HOST) as a module.  Load the module
"usb-net-host.o" and connect the USB cable to the assabet.  Configure
the usb network interface with

	/sbin/ifconfig usb0 1.1.1.1

You should be able to "ping" the assabet now with

	ping -c 1 1.1.1.2

If the assabet is running inetd the usual network services such as
telnet and ftp should work.

Oleg Drokin in 2.4.2-rmk1-np2 (08Mar01) added module config params for
read and write size to the usb-eth.c client to allow dynamic setting
of the DATA0/DATA1 packet size on the usb wire:

usb_rsize - number of bytes in OUT packets from host to SA1100
usb_wsize - number of bytes in IN packets from SA1100 to host

This allows dynamic tuning for performance or to prevent overruning
the the host with data.

4. Known Issues
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- We are fiddling with various ways to set the IMP register in
usb_send.c. A small percentage of the time, this value does not
"take."

- I've started to bring back the /proc interface, but clients
of the sa-usb core currently don't have a directory or something
to put their stats into.

- Only a useful subset of ep0 setup calls have been implemented.


5. Mysteries of the Universe
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This driver has been hard to develop because the documentation
provided by Intel is incomplete, and the UDC itself seems to have a
variety of bugs. The errata for the part is particularly scary! This
section is an attempt to document some of the discoveries and
questions I have come across while working on this thing.

pp 11-63 of the "Intel Strong ARM SA-1110 Microprocessor Advanced
Developer Information" give an ominous warning about how "due to
internal synchronization required by the UDC configuration registers,
it is possible for the procesor to write the UDC refisters and FIFOs
too fast." This has led to a variety of approaches that attempt to
bang on the hardware repeatedly and read it back until the write
"sticks."

All of these approaches have been problematic. Currently some macros
in udc_ctl.h that Nicolas wrote are being used. My hardware guy told
me that writes would never be "lost" but stuck on some internal bus in
the UDC module and propagated to the rest of the circuit when the time
was right. Indeed this seemed to be the case, for example, it seems
impossible to reliably read back the interrupt mask register of the UDC when in
the interrupt service routine. Often times the state was not reflected
on a read until after pending interrupt sources were cleared.

I was feeling prety good about this and was ripping out the looping
macros right and left until I came upon a situation where, while
receiving a continuous set of 1 character packets, ep1 (usb_receive.c)
could not clear receive packet complete (RPC). After much desperate
faliling about it turns out changing the UDC_flip() macro to bang like
crazy on the RPC bit did in fact clear it, and clear it
consistently. So go figure.

Other items of interest:

- Upon emerging from a reset, the UDC will clear the mask register except
for a mask on suspend.

- USB 1.0 spec says maximum size of a DATA0/1 packet is 64 bytes,
which is what the character driver is using. However, the UDC can do
256 bytes and every host I've tried can handle it, even though they
are not required to. (Perhaps it is a problem when hubs are on the
line, but the SA UDC has other problems in a hub environment -- like
even getting the correct address -- per the errata).

- Endpoint zero FIFOs: ARGHHH! Just leave those routines alone.
Believe me, I have tried every other variation you can think of.
Probably.

- Sometimes I get a setup request of 0x80 from Windows hosts. I have
not determined if this is a read_fifo error (none is reported) or if
this is some undocumented secret Redmond handshake only known to
initiates of the inner-order.

6. Test Program
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This is now in the /proc interface. (For good or ill, probably don't
actually need to dump all this stuff..)

7. Errors and Notes on Intel's 1110 Documentation
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These corrections apply to "Intel StrongARM SA-1110 Microprocessor,
Advanced Developer's Manual of December 1999" Some of these have been
corrected in later editions, some not. There have been several updates
to this document published through 2000. Always use the latest
available on http://developer.intel.com/design/strong/collateral.htm.

pp 11-65 section 11.8.3.8 bit 2, reserved is now the resume interrupt
mask. SRM is now SUSIM on SA-1110, and masks only the suspend
interrupt.

pp 11-67 section 11.8.6, Max IN register, end should be 9 _bytes_
not 9 bits.

pp 11-68 section 11.8.7.3, SST. This is set by the CPU _not_ the UDC.
And it looks like you don't get a SST if you FST yourself.

pp 11-68 section 11.8.7.5, DE. This is set by the CPU _not_ the UDC.

pp 11-73 section 11.8.9.7, UDCCS2 table, bit 2, Should be "valid only
when _TPC_ (not RPC) is set.

pp 11-74 section 11.8.10, should end with a GET_DESCRIPTOR _or
similar_ command. (Like, for example, GET_CONFIGURATION).


8. Change History
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Following are current chages  8Mar01 (released in 2.4.2-rmk1-np2?)

- Resetting UDC when coming out of suspend helped enumeration get
going considerably.

- Added support for client-supplied notify routine to be called
by the USB core when core reaches "configured" state.

- Added error returns from interrupt reads and buffer flush ioctl
calls to usb-char. Added usb-char.h file for ioctl calls.

- Fixed bug that kept usb-char transmitter from working the second
time the module was loaded.

- Turned off a lot of the noise in /proc

- Added specialty routines in ep0 to set and clear bits.

- More enumeration fiddling.

- There are horrible hacks to set max IN length in usb_send
  that ARE GOING AWAY SOON! REALLY!

*** Following changes 26Feb01 (released in 2.4.2-rmk1-np1)

- usb-eth integration with generic usbnet from AC tree.

- Creation of public interface for usb clients in sa1100_usb.h
and final separation into a "core" driver (usb_ctl.c, usb_ep0.c
usb_recv.c usb_send.c) and "client" services (usb-eth.c and
usb-char.c). Modularized.

- Descriptor handling rewritten. Support for string descriptors
added. More bugs in ep0 fixed. More setup packets handled.

- /proc interface in usb_ctl returning

- removed client specific stuff from usbd_info_t and hid the
structure in usb_ctl. Removed RAM-backing of address and pktsize
in this structure. Now the descriptor values are gospel.

- usb_dbg.h eliminated

- Many bugs fixed in usb-char.c

- Fiddled startup sequence so should start everytime.

- Arch specific "soft connect" hook in usb_ctl.c

- Bumped the interation count in write/set/clear macros
in usb_ctl.h up to 10000. This seemed to help various bit
setting in ep0 and usb_send.c.

*** Following changes 10Feb01 release:

- endpoint zero entirely rewitten

- Various changes by Oleg to make Netlink work again after the
  2.4.1-rmk1-np1 release.

- Resetting of new max packet length done after clearing TPC
in usb_send, per Nicolas Pitre.


*** Following changes 23Jan01 (came out in 2.4.1-rmk1-np1):

- Moved host initiated SET/GET feature stall into endpoint code of
usb_send.c and usb_receive.c and removed stallep from usb_ctl.c
Opposite of a SET_FEATURE stall is a reset, so no code to unstall is
provided.

- Added explicit USB state machine to usb_ctl so driver and device
state can be tracked closely and explicitly. Added hard-wired
notification routines in endpoints 1 and 2 so they can track device
state changes as required. State machine has notion of "zombie" state
the covers USB states NONATTACHED, ATTACHED and POWERED since these
are murky, and USB driver currently has no way to differentiate
between the two.

- Reworked ISR in usb_ctl so reset has higher priority than any other
event. Stopped using sync macros to clear interrupt pending flags and set
mask registers since it appears mask register changes are not
always reflected on a mask register read until the pending flag is
cleared (yet other tests show they are always cleared
eventually). Toggle suspend/resume interrupt masks back and forth during
suspend and resume to debounce and keep UDC internal state machine in
sync per Intel documentation.

- Flipped UDC flip, clear, write and set macros from do{}while to
while() loops. Theory is you might save a loop iteration if value
becomes valid immediately. Also, my hardware guy says writes are never
"lost", just pipelined and not executed immediately depending on
internal device conditions (like setting int masks when ints
pending), so moved write cycles in macros outside of loops.

- Added #defines to SA-1110.h for suspend and resume interrupt mask
bits per Intel eratta. Submitted to ARM patch system (444/1).

- Removed task queue and defered execution of configure() from
usb_ctl.

- Removed usb_write_reg() from usb_ctl.c, and various cruft from
usb_ctl.h.

- Added sa1100_usb_xmitter_avail() to usb_send.c. Makes implementing
poll() fileop easier.

- Added sa1100_usb_send_reset() to usb_send.c. Makes implementing
transmitter timeout easier.

- Added API to usb_ctl to set vendor and product ID

- Changed BMATTR descriptor fron int to bulk, when not using netlink. (All
the docs say UDC does not support INT xfers -- though, at the protocol
level I don't see why not, since bulk and int are both just
IN-DATA-ACK. I figure netlink may rely on this, and not just a
continuous pending read from the host, but for "pure bulk" host
polling may not be generally correct.)

- Removed unused rx_lock and tx_lock from usb_ctl

- Converted everyone to SA-1100.h and nuked hardware defines in usb_ctl.h

- Removed udc_init() in usb_ctl.c and folded functionality into udc_start().

- Clear force stall (FST) in udc_start and reset so UDC actually runs when
first turned on.

- Emit NAK in receiver until ep1_start() for error (RPE) case too.

- Remove enable/disable UDC from reset handler in udc_ctl. The UDC has
already been reset, so no need to do this again.

- Explicitly set address to zero in ep0_reset()

- Added "naking" boolean to usb_receiv.c. An attempt to solve a
hypothetical race condition where we are in the critical section
initiating a read from base-level code, a RPC happens, and start()
might clear the condition before the packet is handled by the ISR.