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    fsi/fsi-master-gpio: Delay sampling of FSI data input · f3ca4834
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
    Most SoC GPIO implementations, including the Aspeed one, have
    synchronizers on the GPIO inputs. This means that the value
    read from a GPIO is a couple of clocks old, from whatever clock
    source feeds those synchronizers.
    
    In practice, this means that in no-delay mode, we are using a
    value that can potentially be a bit too old and too close to
    the clock edge establishing the data on the other side of the link.
    
    The voltage converters we use on some systems make this worse
    and sensitive to things like voltage fluctuations etc... This is,
    we believe, the cause of occasional CRC errors encountered during
    heavy activity on the LPC bus.
    
    This is fixed by introducing a dummy GPIO read before the actual
    data read. It slows down SBEFIFO by about 15% (less than any delay
    primitive) and the end result is so far solid.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristopher Bostic <cbostic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
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