On 19 February 2015 at 18:14, Antti Palosaari <cr...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 02/19/2015 06:01 PM, Antti Seppälä wrote:
>>
>> On 19 February 2015 at 17:38, Antti Palosaari <cr...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/19/2015 12:21 PM, Antti Seppälä wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 19 February 2015 at 11:43, Benjamin Larsson <benja...@southpole.se>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-02-19 10:13, Antti Seppälä wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that currently the firmware download on the mn88472 is
>>>>>> somehow wrong for my Astrometa HD-901T2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reducing the download chunk size (mn88472_config.i2c_wr_max) to 2
>>>>>> makes the firmware download consistently succeed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, try adding the workaround patch I sent for this.
>>>>>
>>>>> [PATCH 1/3] rtl28xxu: lower the rc poll time to mitigate i2c transfer
>>>>> errors
>>>>>
>>>>> I now see that it hasn't been merged. But I have been running with this
>>>>> patch for a few months now without any major issues.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The patch really did improve firmware loading. Weird...
>>>>
>>>> Even with it I still get occasional i2c errors from r820t:
>>>>
>>>> [   15.874402] r820t 8-003a: r820t_write: i2c wr failed=-32 reg=0a
>>>> len=1:
>>>> da
>>>> [   81.455517] r820t 8-003a: r820t_read: i2c rd failed=-32 reg=00
>>>> len=4: 69 74 e6 df
>>>> [   99.949702] r820t 8-003a: r820t_read: i2c rd failed=-32 reg=00
>>>> len=4: 69 74 e6 df
>>>>
>>>> These errors seem to appear more often if I'm reading the signal
>>>> strength values using e.g. femon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you disable whole IR polling and test
>>> modprobe dvb_usb_v2 disable_rc_polling=1
>>>
>>> It is funny that *increasing* RC polling makes things better, though...
>>>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I tried loading the driver with polling disabled and it fails completely:
>>
>> [ 5526.693563] mn88472 7-0018: downloading firmware from file
>> 'dvb-demod-mn88472-02.fw'
>> [ 5527.032209] mn88472 7-0018: firmware download failed=-32
>> [ 5527.033864] rtl2832 7-0010: i2c reg write failed -32
>> [ 5527.033874] r820t 8-003a: r820t_write: i2c wr failed=-32 reg=05 len=1:
>> 83
>> [ 5527.036014] rtl2832 7-0010: i2c reg write failed -32
>>
>> I have no idea why the device behaves so counter-intuitively. Is there
>> maybe some sorf of internal power-save mode the device enters when
>> there is no i2c traffic for a while or something?
>
>
> IR polling does not use I2C but some own commands. Could you make more
> tests. Use rtl28xxu module parameter to disable IR and test. It will disable
> both IR interrupts and polling. Then make some tests with different IR
> polling intervals to see how it behaves.
>

Hi Antti.

I made some further tests for you. Here are the results:

dvb_usb_v2 disable_rc_polling=1: firmware download FAILED

dvb_usb_rtl28xxu disable_rc=1: firmware download FAILED

Then I restored the module parameters to default values and tested
with various rc->interval values:

interval = 800: firmware download FAILED
interval = 600: firmware download FAILED
interval = 400: firmware download FAILED
interval = 300: firmware download SUCCESS but I2C errors from tuner
could be sometimes observed
interval = 200: firmware download SUCCESS
interval = 100: firmware download SUCCESS

So somehow higher rc polling rate makes the firmware download succeed.
This could indeed be some locking/timing related bug.

Please let me know if there is something else I can test.

-Antti
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