On 09/21/2017 02:48 AM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:

On 09/20/2017 04:37 PM, Mario Hüttel wrote:

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On 09/20/2017 10:19 PM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:

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Hi Wenyou,

On 09/17/2017 10:47 PM, Yang, Wenyou wrote:

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On 2017/9/14 13:06, Sekhar Nori wrote:

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On Thursday 14 September 2017 03:28 AM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:

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On 08/18/2017 02:39 PM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:

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During test transmitting using CAN-FD at high bitrates (4 Mbps) only
resulted in errors. Scoping the signals I noticed that only a single
bit
was being transmitted and with a bit more investigation realized the
actual
MCAN IP would go back to initialization mode automatically.

It appears this issue is due to the MCAN needing to use the Transmitter
Delay Compensation Mode as defined in the MCAN User's Guide. When this
mode is used the User's Guide indicates that the Transmitter Delay
Compensation Offset register should be set. The document mentions
that this
register should be set to (1/dbitrate)/2*(Func Clk Freq).

Additional CAN-CIA's "Bit Time Requirements for CAN FD" document
indicates
that this TDC mode is only needed for data bit rates above 2.5 Mbps.
Therefore, only enable this mode and only set TDCO when the data bit
rate
is above 2.5 Mbps.

Signed-off-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <redacted>
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I'm pretty surprised that this hasn't been implemented already since
the primary purpose of CAN-FD is to go beyond 1 Mbps and the MCAN IP
supports up to 10 Mbps.

So it will be nice to get comments from users of this driver to
understand
if they have been able to use CAN-FD beyond 2.5 Mbps without this
patch.
If they haven't what did they do to get around it if they needed higher
speeds.

Meanwhile I plan on testing this using a more "realistic" CAN bus to
insure
everything still works at 5 Mbps which is the max speed of my CAN
transceiver.

ping. Anyone has any thoughts on this?

I added Dong who authored the m_can driver and Wenyou who added the only
in-kernel user of the driver for any help.

I tested it on SAMA5D2 Xplained board both with and without this patch, 
both work with the 4M bps data bit rate.

Thank you for testing this out. Its interesting that you have been able
to use higher speeds without this patch. What is the CAN transceiver
being used on the SAMA5D2 Xplained board? I tried looking at the
schematic but it seems the CAN signals are used on an extension board
which I can't find the schematic for. Also do you mind sharing your test
setup? Were you doing a short point to point test?

Thank You,
Franklin

Hello Franklin,

your patch definitely makes sense.

I forgot the TDC in my patches because it was not present in the
previous driver versions and because I didn't encounter any
problems when testing it myself.

The error is highly dependent on the hardware (transceiver) setup.
So it is definitely possible that some people don't encounter errors
without your patch.

So the Transmission Delay Compensation feature Value register is suppose
to take into consideration the transceiver delay automatically and add
the value of TDCO on top of that. So why would TDCO be dependent on the
transceiver? I've heard conflicting things regarding TDC so any
clarification on what actually impacts it would be appreciated.

Also part of the issue I'm having is how can we properly configure TDCO?
Configuring TDCO is essentially figuring out what Secondary Sample Point
to use. However, it is unclear what value to set SSP to and which use
cases a given SSP will work or doesn't work. I've seen various
recommendations from Bosch on choosing SSP but ultimately it seems they
suggestion "real world testing" to come up with a proper value. Not
setting TDCO causes problems for my device and improperly setting TDCO
causes problems for my device. So its likely any value I use could end
up breaking something for someone else.

Currently I leaning to a DT property that can be used for setting SSP.
Perhaps use a generic default value and allow individuals to override it
via DT?

Sounds reasonable. What's the status of this series?

Marc

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