SAM9-L9260: TXD1 is not working on AT91SAM9260

Hi,

I have an Olimex SAM9-L9260 board with an AT91SAM9260 controller on it. The board is running a sound-2.6 git kernel (2.6.35).

My problem is that for USART1 (which uses the RXD1 and TXD1 pins), the transmit pin (i.e. TXD1) is not working.
I looked at it with my scope and discovered that it is high all the time (which is most likely due to the configured pull-up resistor).

Here is what I did to get the UART up and running (just like what I already did for the DBG UART and UART0):

In my board file (arch/arm/mach-at91/board-sam9-l9260.c) I added the following line to ek_map_io(), to register USART1 as ttyS2:

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at91_register_uart(AT91SAM9260_ID_US1, 2, 0);
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A look at at91sam9260_devices.c reveals that this will lead to a call of
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configure_usart1_pins(pins);
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which in turn does the following:
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at91_set_A_periph(AT91_PIN_PB6, 1); /* TXD1 */
at91_set_A_periph(AT91_PIN_PB7, 0); /* RXD1 */
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hence the pins PB6 and PB7 are configured to be UART pins. I also made sure that there is no other code, that sets the functionality of those pins to something else (e.g. pin PB6 could also be used as TCLK1).

Then, when I boot the kernel, I get the following lines, which show that the UARTs are recognized:

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atmel_usart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfefff200 (irq = 1) is a ATMEL_SERIAL atmel_usart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfffb0000 (irq = 6) is a ATMEL_SERIAL atmel_usart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0xfffb4000 (irq = 7) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

While this looks good so far, the odd behavior is that I can correctly receive data on /dev/ttyS2 (i.e. data is received on the RXD1/PB7 pin), but I can not send (i.e. *no* data is being transmitted on the TXD1/PB6 pin).

* Is this a bug in the kernel or am I doing something wrong here ?

* Did you experience similar behavior on the at91sam9260 ?

As I already said, I have done this with other UART devices as well (i.e. USART0) and it worked flawlessly.

cheers,
stefan

Hello Stefan,

You modify here default configuration which is

	at91_register_uart(AT91SAM9260_ID_US1, 2, 
		ATMEL_UART_CTS | ATMEL_UART_RTS);

Do you turn off hardware handshake when you configure your test setup for ttyS2 ?

Thanks,
Sergey

Hi Sergey,

exactly this was the problem.
I reused my code that I wrote earlier for uart communication with RTC/CTS, but then missed to turn hw handshaking off. Hence all transmissions were being blocked.

Thank you for your hint, without it I might still be looking for the problem in the wrong places.

cheers,
stefan