V4L/DVB (4609): Improved i2c performance on software bitbang algoritm
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:04:28 +0000 (19:04 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:30:35 +0000 (12:30 -0300)
Software I2C were using a very conservative value of udelay=16, meaning about
20Kbps. According with Philips I2C datasheet, the i2c should answer well for
times at the order of 4.7 us. So, using udelay=5 should work for all devices.
After this patch, the speed should be close to 66,67 Kbps, with the current
kernel software bitbang, with 30/60 duty cycle.
Anyway, added a new parameter (i2c_udelay) that would allow using conservative
values, if eventually a hardware doesn't support the datasheet values.
Thanks to Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> for pointing this improvement.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options
drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-i2c.c

index fc94ff235ffac51f1f0079bbe673f47c3a460632..bb7c2cac7917e97bd206442747eb6b0e77356c42 100644 (file)
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ bttv.o
                                dropouts.
                chroma_agc=0/1  AGC of chroma signal, off by default.
                adc_crush=0/1   Luminance ADC crush, on by default.
+               i2c_udelay=     Allow reduce I2C speed. Default is 5 usecs
+                               (meaning 66,67 Kbps). The default is the
+                               maximum supported speed by kernel bitbang
+                               algoritm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C
+                               messages are lost (16 is known to work on
+                               all supported cards).
 
                bttv_gpio=0/1
                gpiomask=
index 4b562b386fcf6d044882077359763bb2e84ac241..03ee170181f2f89ed5552491f5ed874897683c87 100644 (file)
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
                           & Marcus Metzler (mocm@thp.uni-koeln.de)
     (c) 1999-2003 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
 
+    (c) 2005 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+       - Multituner support and i2c address binding
+
     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
@@ -45,10 +48,18 @@ static int i2c_debug;
 static int i2c_hw;
 static int i2c_scan;
 module_param(i2c_debug, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_hw,"configure i2c debug level");
 module_param(i2c_hw,    int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_hw,"force use of hardware i2c support, "
+                       "instead of software bitbang");
 module_param(i2c_scan,  int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_scan,"scan i2c bus at insmod time");
 
+static unsigned int i2c_udelay = 5;
+module_param(i2c_udelay, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_udelay,"soft i2c delay at insmod time, in usecs "
+               "(should be 5 or higher). Lower value means higher bus speed.");
+
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 /* I2C functions - bitbanging adapter (software i2c)                       */
 
@@ -426,6 +437,11 @@ int __devinit init_bttv_i2c(struct bttv *btv)
                       sizeof(bttv_i2c_adap_hw_template));
        } else {
                /* bt848 */
+       /* Prevents usage of invalid delay values */
+               if (i2c_udelay<5)
+                       i2c_udelay=5;
+               bttv_i2c_algo_bit_template.udelay=i2c_udelay;
+
                memcpy(&btv->c.i2c_adap, &bttv_i2c_adap_sw_template,
                       sizeof(bttv_i2c_adap_sw_template));
                memcpy(&btv->i2c_algo, &bttv_i2c_algo_bit_template,
index 2aec4c18268a2d998dbb753a7c5a203f898b4009..a74ed632dda01499468ffe4f8909ebd9b36409fd 100644 (file)
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ static unsigned int i2c_scan = 0;
 module_param(i2c_scan, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_scan,"scan i2c bus at insmod time");
 
+static unsigned int i2c_udelay = 5;
+module_param(i2c_udelay, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(i2c_udelay,"i2c delay at insmod time, in usecs "
+               "(should be 5 or higher). Lower value means higher bus speed.");
+
 #define dprintk(level,fmt, arg...)     if (i2c_debug >= level) \
        printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: " fmt, core->name , ## arg)
 
@@ -202,6 +207,11 @@ static void do_i2c_scan(char *name, struct i2c_client *c)
 /* init + register i2c algo-bit adapter */
 int cx88_i2c_init(struct cx88_core *core, struct pci_dev *pci)
 {
+       /* Prevents usage of invalid delay values */
+       if (i2c_udelay<5)
+               i2c_udelay=5;
+       cx8800_i2c_algo_template.udelay=i2c_udelay;
+
        memcpy(&core->i2c_adap, &cx8800_i2c_adap_template,
               sizeof(core->i2c_adap));
        memcpy(&core->i2c_algo, &cx8800_i2c_algo_template,