Hi Vladislav,

On 10/13/2010 11:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
>> I'm following the discussion and realized that it will not work for
>> devices doing the local loopback in hardware, like the flexcan
>> controller. 
> 
> What is actually the advantage of using hardware loopback? One can
> always quit using it and use Tx interrupt for self reception ...

Hey, we care about overhead ;-). CAN can cause high interrupt loads,
especially at 1 MB/s.

>> Strictly speaking it will only work properly for drivers
>> doing the local loopback in software when the TX done interrupt is
>> handled. Also some USB devices are not able to do that properly.
> 
> Yes, active cards is a problem. The firmware shall support self
> reception
> and loop back the sent messages in order to guarantee correct behavior. 
> The timestamp is also pain ...

I agree.

Wolfgang.

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