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SM501 Driver |
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:Copyright: |copy| 2006, 2007 Simtec Electronics |
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The Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip is a multifunction device |
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which may provide numerous interfaces including USB host controller USB gadget, |
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asynchronous serial ports, audio functions, and a dual display video interface. |
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The device may be connected by PCI or local bus with varying functions enabled. |
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Core |
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The core driver in drivers/mfd provides common services for the |
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drivers which manage the specific hardware blocks. These services |
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include locking for common registers, clock control and resource |
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management. |
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The core registers drivers for both PCI and generic bus based |
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chips via the platform device and driver system. |
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On detection of a device, the core initialises the chip (which may |
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be specified by the platform data) and then exports the selected |
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peripheral set as platform devices for the specific drivers. |
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The core re-uses the platform device system as the platform device |
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system provides enough features to support the drivers without the |
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need to create a new bus-type and the associated code to go with it. |
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Resources |
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Each peripheral has a view of the device which is implicitly narrowed to |
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the specific set of resources that peripheral requires in order to |
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function correctly. |
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The centralised memory allocation allows the driver to ensure that the |
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maximum possible resource allocation can be made to the video subsystem |
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as this is by-far the most resource-sensitive of the on-chip functions. |
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The primary issue with memory allocation is that of moving the video |
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buffers once a display mode is chosen. Indeed when a video mode change |
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occurs the memory footprint of the video subsystem changes. |
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Since video memory is difficult to move without changing the display |
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(unless sufficient contiguous memory can be provided for the old and new |
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modes simultaneously) the video driver fully utilises the memory area |
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given to it by aligning fb0 to the start of the area and fb1 to the end |
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of it. Any memory left over in the middle is used for the acceleration |
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functions, which are transient and thus their location is less critical |
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as it can be moved. |
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Configuration |
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The platform device driver uses a set of platform data to pass |
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configurations through to the core and the subsidiary drivers |
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so that there can be support for more than one system carrying |
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an SM501 built into a single kernel image. |
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The PCI driver assumes that the PCI card behaves as per the Silicon |
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Motion reference design. |
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There is an errata (AB-5) affecting the selection of the |
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of the M1XCLK and M1CLK frequencies. These two clocks |
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must be sourced from the same PLL, although they can then |
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be divided down individually. If this is not set, then SM501 may |
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lock and hang the whole system. The driver will refuse to |
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attach if the PLL selection is different.
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