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    i2c: davinci: Increase module clock frequency · 87cb5b42
    Alexander Sverdlin authored
    
    
    I2C controller used in Keystone SoC has an undocumented peculiarity which
    results in SDA-SCL margins being dependent on module clock. Driving high
    capacity bus near its limits can result in STOP condition sometimes being
    understood as REPEATED-START by slaves (or NACK instead of ACK, etc...).
    Driving the module with higher clocks increases the margin between SDA and SCL
    transitions, making the operations with higher bus rates more robust. Therefore,
    target the module clock to 12MHz instead of 7MHz, still staying within
    the specification limits.
    
    Before the change STOP timing looked like this on 400kHz:
    
    SDA   ----------+          +----
                     \        /
                      \      /
                       +----+
                           (1)
    SCL   --+          +------------
             \        /
              \      /
               +----+
                   (2)
    
    While only point (1) signals STOP, point (2) could be incorrectly recognized as
    repeated-START (almost no margin between SDA and SCL transitions).
    
    After the change there is at least 600ns margin measured between SCL fall and
    SDA fall during STOP generation:
    
    SDA   ------+          +----
                 \        /
                  \      /
                   +----+
    
    SCL   --+          +--------
             \        /
              \      /
               +----+
               ->|    |<- 600ns
                    ->|   |<- tSUSTO
    
    So called tSUSTO (setup time for STOP condition) is still slightly higher than
    600ns, so no problem here.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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