Author: hailfinger Date: 2009-11-22 02:33:40 +0100 (Sun, 22 Nov 2009) New Revision: 769
Modified: trunk/ft2232_spi.c Log: Pretty much everybody who used the FT2232 SPI driver in flashrom had problems with incorrect reads from time to time. One reason was that the hardware is pretty timing sensitive even for reads.
The other reason was that the code silently ignored errors. This patch doesn't add any error recovery, but it will emit error messages if FT2232 communication goes wrong. That allows us to track down errors without investing hours in driver debugging.
Thanks to Jeremy Buseman naviathan@gmail.com for testing. He found out that certain libftdi/libusb/kernel/hardware combinations drop some bytes without returning any error codes.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net Acked-by: Paul Fox pgf@laptop.org
Modified: trunk/ft2232_spi.c =================================================================== --- trunk/ft2232_spi.c 2009-11-21 11:02:48 UTC (rev 768) +++ trunk/ft2232_spi.c 2009-11-22 01:33:40 UTC (rev 769) @@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ { struct ftdi_context *ftdic = &ftdic_context; static unsigned char *buf = NULL; - int i = 0, ret = 0; + /* failed is special. We use bitwise ops, but it is essentially bool. */ + int i = 0, ret = 0, failed = 0;
if (writecnt > 65536 || readcnt > 65536) return SPI_INVALID_LENGTH; @@ -237,6 +238,11 @@ buf[i++] = (readcnt - 1) & 0xff; buf[i++] = ((readcnt - 1) >> 8) & 0xff; ret = send_buf(ftdic, buf, i); + failed = ret; + /* We can't abort here, we still have to deassert CS#. */ + if (ret) + fprintf(stderr, "send_buf failed before read: %i\n", + ret); i = 0; if (ret == 0) { /* @@ -245,6 +251,10 @@ * command. We may be scheduled out etc. */ ret = get_buf(ftdic, readarr, readcnt); + failed |= ret; + /* We can't abort here either. */ + if (ret) + fprintf(stderr, "get_buf failed: %i\n", ret); } }
@@ -252,10 +262,12 @@ buf[i++] = SET_BITS_LOW; buf[i++] = CS_BIT; buf[i++] = 0x0b; - if (send_buf(ftdic, buf, i)) - return -1; + ret = send_buf(ftdic, buf, i); + failed |= ret; + if (ret) + fprintf(stderr, "send_buf failed at end: %i\n", ret);
- return ret; + return failed ? -1 : 0; }
int ft2232_spi_read(struct flashchip *flash, uint8_t *buf, int start, int len)