On 10/18/2010 05:56 PM, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday 13 October 2010, 11:51:20 Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> As Wolfgang pointed out, it doesn't work, i.e. they show up as "normal"
>> messages. You cannot distinguish between loopback'ed messages and normal
>> ones. But that can be fixed in the driver.
>>
>> I think we (the socketcan people) originally thought it's a better
>> solution to loop the CAN frames back in hardware (if available), as it
>> represents what's happening on the wire far better than software
>> loopback. But it turns out that many people need the receive own
>> messages feature (for whatever reason).
>>
>> Send patches or contact your favourite embedded linux support company :)))
> 
> I've checked some manuals and found a bit in flexcan register MCR where you 
> can disable hardware loopback. But now I'm wondering which flexcan device 
> support this bit. At least flexcan on Coldfire 5484 (yeah a pretty old one) 
> doesn't do it. Does somebody else know which devices have / have not this bit?

The current driver doesn't support the old coldfire flexcan (the one
without the rx-FIFO) anyway. So feel free to implement full software
loopback and send patches.

cheers, Marc

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