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1	HSI - High-speed Synchronous Serial Interface
2	
3	1. Introduction
4	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5	
6	High Speed Syncronous Interface (HSI) is a fullduplex, low latency protocol,
7	that is optimized for die-level interconnect between an Application Processor
8	and a Baseband chipset. It has been specified by the MIPI alliance in 2003 and
9	implemented by multiple vendors since then.
10	
11	The HSI interface supports full duplex communication over multiple channels
12	(typically 8) and is capable of reaching speeds up to 200 Mbit/s.
13	
14	The serial protocol uses two signals, DATA and FLAG as combined data and clock
15	signals and an additional READY signal for flow control. An additional WAKE
16	signal can be used to wakeup the chips from standby modes. The signals are
17	commonly prefixed by AC for signals going from the application die to the
18	cellular die and CA for signals going the other way around.
19	
20	+------------+                                 +---------------+
21	|  Cellular  |                                 |  Application  |
22	|    Die     |                                 |      Die      |
23	|            | - - - - - - CAWAKE - - - - - - >|               |
24	|           T|------------ CADATA ------------>|R              |
25	|           X|------------ CAFLAG ------------>|X              |
26	|            |<----------- ACREADY ------------|               |
27	|            |                                 |               |
28	|            |                                 |               |
29	|            |< - - - - -  ACWAKE - - - - - - -|               |
30	|           R|<----------- ACDATA -------------|T              |
31	|           X|<----------- ACFLAG -------------|X              |
32	|            |------------ CAREADY ----------->|               |
33	|            |                                 |               |
34	|            |                                 |               |
35	+------------+                                 +---------------+
36	
37	2. HSI Subsystem in Linux
38	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
39	
40	In the Linux kernel the hsi subsystem is supposed to be used for HSI devices.
41	The hsi subsystem contains drivers for hsi controllers including support for
42	multi-port controllers and provides a generic API for using the HSI ports.
43	
44	It also contains HSI client drivers, which make use of the generic API to
45	implement a protocol used on the HSI interface. These client drivers can
46	use an arbitrary number of channels.
47	
48	3. hsi-char Device
49	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
50	
51	Each port automatically registers a generic client driver called hsi_char,
52	which provides a charecter device for userspace representing the HSI port.
53	It can be used to communicate via HSI from userspace. Userspace may
54	configure the hsi_char device using the following ioctl commands:
55	
56	* HSC_RESET:
57	 - flush the HSI port
58	
59	* HSC_SET_PM
60	 - enable or disable the client.
61	
62	* HSC_SEND_BREAK
63	 - send break
64	
65	* HSC_SET_RX
66	 - set RX configuration
67	
68	* HSC_GET_RX
69	 - get RX configuration
70	
71	* HSC_SET_TX
72	 - set TX configuration
73	
74	* HSC_GET_TX
75	 - get TX configuration
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