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      1====================
      2Kernel driver ds2490
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      4
      5Supported chips:
      6
      7  * Maxim DS2490 based
      8
      9Author: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
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     11
     12Description
     13-----------
     14
     15The Maxim/Dallas Semiconductor DS2490 is a chip
     16which allows to build USB <-> W1 bridges.
     17
     18DS9490(R) is a USB <-> W1 bus master device
     19which has 0x81 family ID integrated chip and DS2490
     20low-level operational chip.
     21
     22Notes and limitations.
     23
     24- The weak pullup current is a minimum of 0.9mA and maximum of 6.0mA.
     25- The 5V strong pullup is supported with a minimum of 5.9mA and a
     26  maximum of 30.4 mA.  (From DS2490.pdf)
     27- The hardware will detect when devices are attached to the bus on the
     28  next bus (reset?) operation, however only a message is printed as
     29  the core w1 code doesn't make use of the information.  Connecting
     30  one device tends to give multiple new device notifications.
     31- The number of USB bus transactions could be reduced if w1_reset_send
     32  was added to the API.  The name is just a suggestion.  It would take
     33  a write buffer and a read buffer (along with sizes) as arguments.
     34  The ds2490 block I/O command supports reset, write buffer, read
     35  buffer, and strong pullup all in one command, instead of the current
     36  1 reset bus, 2 write the match rom command and slave rom id, 3 block
     37  write and read data.  The write buffer needs to have the match rom
     38  command and slave rom id prepended to the front of the requested
     39  write buffer, both of which are known to the driver.
     40- The hardware supports normal, flexible, and overdrive bus
     41  communication speeds, but only the normal is supported.
     42- The registered w1_bus_master functions don't define error
     43  conditions.  If a bus search is in progress and the ds2490 is
     44  removed it can produce a good amount of error output before the bus
     45  search finishes.
     46- The hardware supports detecting some error conditions, such as
     47  short, alarming presence on reset, and no presence on reset, but the
     48  driver doesn't query those values.
     49- The ds2490 specification doesn't cover short bulk in reads in
     50  detail, but my observation is if fewer bytes are requested than are
     51  available, the bulk read will return an error and the hardware will
     52  clear the entire bulk in buffer.  It would be possible to read the
     53  maximum buffer size to not run into this error condition, only extra
     54  bytes in the buffer is a logic error in the driver.  The code should
     55  should match reads and writes as well as data sizes.  Reads and
     56  writes are serialized and the status verifies that the chip is idle
     57  (and data is available) before the read is executed, so it should
     58  not happen.
     59- Running x86_64 2.6.24 UHCI under qemu 0.9.0 under x86_64 2.6.22-rc6
     60  with a OHCI controller, ds2490 running in the guest would operate
     61  normally the first time the module was loaded after qemu attached
     62  the ds2490 hardware, but if the module was unloaded, then reloaded
     63  most of the time one of the bulk out or in, and usually the bulk in
     64  would fail.  qemu sets a 50ms timeout and the bulk in would timeout
     65  even when the status shows data available.  A bulk out write would
     66  show a successful completion, but the ds2490 status register would
     67  show 0 bytes written.  Detaching qemu from the ds2490 hardware and
     68  reattaching would clear the problem.  usbmon output in the guest and
     69  host did not explain the problem.  My guess is a bug in either qemu
     70  or the host OS and more likely the host OS.
     71
     7203-06-2008 David Fries <David@Fries.net>