Re: Marvell 64360, MPSC Serial Console Problem
From: Mark A. Greer <hidden>
Date: 2005-04-20 19:41:57
Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote:
<snip> We faced a problem in MPSC serial console part. The problem is, in Serial console data is received once after 32 characters are typed. Any thing less than 32 characters is not echoed or not transmitted till the 32 character count is reached. After carefully reviewing the code. We found that the receive buffer size is initialised to 32 bytes. We made a small correction in the code by making the receive buffer size to 1 rxre->bufsize = 1;
<snip> Suresh, I think you fixed a symptom but not the problem. By default, the rx buffers are indeed 32 bytes long (i.e., a cacheline in size). When receiving, the mpsc will generate an interrupt when there is an error, when the buffer is full (32 bytes--unlikely if you're typing), or after a timeout. I suspect your timeout value is bogus so you don't get the interrupt until you fill the buffer with 32 bytes. Please compare the platform_data that you pass to the mpsc driver to other, working systems that use the mpsc (e.g., katana and cpci690). In particular, look at your 'max_idle' value. Mark