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Based on kernel version 3.9. Page generated on 2013-05-02 23:13 EST.

1	General Description
2	===================
3	
4	This driver supports the 53c700 and 53c700-66 chips.  It also supports
5	the 53c710 but only in 53c700 emulation mode.  It is full featured and
6	does sync (-66 and 710 only), disconnects and tag command queueing.
7	
8	Since the 53c700 must be interfaced to a bus, you need to wrapper the
9	card detector around this driver.  For an example, see the
10	NCR_D700.[ch] or lasi700.[ch] files.
11	
12	The comments in the 53c700.[ch] files tell you which parts you need to
13	fill in to get the driver working.
14	
15	
16	Compile Time Flags
17	==================
18	
19	A compile time flag is:
20	
21	CONFIG_53C700_LE_ON_BE
22	
23	define if the chipset must be supported in little endian mode on a big
24	endian architecture (used for the 700 on parisc).
25	
26	
27	Using the Chip Core Driver
28	==========================
29	
30	In order to plumb the 53c700 chip core driver into a working SCSI
31	driver, you need to know three things about the way the chip is wired
32	into your system (or expansion card).
33	
34	1. The clock speed of the SCSI core
35	2. The interrupt line used
36	3. The memory (or io space) location of the 53c700 registers.
37	
38	Optionally, you may also need to know other things, like how to read
39	the SCSI Id from the card bios or whether the chip is wired for
40	differential operation.
41	
42	Usually you can find items 2. and 3. from general spec. documents or
43	even by examining the configuration of a working driver under another
44	operating system.
45	
46	The clock speed is usually buried deep in the technical literature.
47	It is required because it is used to set up both the synchronous and
48	asynchronous dividers for the chip.  As a general rule of thumb,
49	manufacturers set the clock speed at the lowest possible setting
50	consistent with the best operation of the chip (although some choose
51	to drive it off the CPU or bus clock rather than going to the expense
52	of an extra clock chip).  The best operation clock speeds are:
53	
54	53c700 - 25MHz
55	53c700-66 - 50MHz
56	53c710 - 40Mhz
57	
58	Writing Your Glue Driver
59	========================
60	
61	This will be a standard SCSI driver (I don't know of a good document
62	describing this, just copy from some other driver) with at least a
63	detect and release entry.
64	
65	In the detect routine, you need to allocate a struct
66	NCR_700_Host_Parameters sized memory area and clear it (so that the
67	default values for everything are 0).  Then you must fill in the
68	parameters that matter to you (see below), plumb the NCR_700_intr
69	routine into the interrupt line and call NCR_700_detect with the host
70	template and the new parameters as arguments.  You should also call
71	the relevant request_*_region function and place the register base
72	address into the `base' pointer of the host parameters.
73	
74	In the release routine, you must free the NCR_700_Host_Parameters that
75	you allocated, call the corresponding release_*_region and free the
76	interrupt.
77	
78	Handling Interrupts
79	-------------------
80	
81	In general, you should just plumb the card's interrupt line in with 
82	
83	request_irq(irq, NCR_700_intr, <irq flags>, <driver name>, host);
84	
85	where host is the return from the relevant NCR_700_detect() routine.
86	
87	You may also write your own interrupt handling routine which calls
88	NCR_700_intr() directly.  However, you should only really do this if
89	you have a card with more than one chip on it and you can read a
90	register to tell which set of chips wants the interrupt.
91	
92	Settable NCR_700_Host_Parameters
93	--------------------------------
94	
95	The following are a list of the user settable parameters:
96	
97	clock: (MANDATORY)
98	
99	Set to the clock speed of the chip in MHz.
100	
101	base: (MANDATORY)
102	
103	set to the base of the io or mem region for the register set. On 64
104	bit architectures this is only 32 bits wide, so the registers must be
105	mapped into the low 32 bits of memory.
106	
107	pci_dev: (OPTIONAL)
108	
109	set to the PCI board device.  Leave NULL for a non-pci board.  This is
110	used for the pci_alloc_consistent() and pci_map_*() functions.
111	
112	dmode_extra: (OPTIONAL, 53c710 only)
113	
114	extra flags for the DMODE register.  These are used to control bus
115	output pins on the 710.  The settings should be a combination of
116	DMODE_FC1 and DMODE_FC2.  What these pins actually do is entirely up
117	to the board designer.  Usually it is safe to ignore this setting.
118	
119	differential: (OPTIONAL)
120	
121	set to 1 if the chip drives a differential bus.
122	
123	force_le_on_be: (OPTIONAL, only if CONFIG_53C700_LE_ON_BE is set)
124	
125	set to 1 if the chip is operating in little endian mode on a big
126	endian architecture.
127	
128	chip710: (OPTIONAL)
129	
130	set to 1 if the chip is a 53c710.
131	
132	burst_disable: (OPTIONAL, 53c710 only)
133	
134	disable 8 byte bursting for DMA transfers.
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