transport protocol used for communication. The current external sensor hubs
mainly use HID over I2C or USB. But ISH doesn't use either I2C or USB.
-1. Overview
-===========
+Overview
+========
Using a analogy with a usbhid implementation, the ISH follows a similar model
for a very high speed communication::
is registered as a device on this bus. The driver, which binds each device
(ISH HID driver) identifies the device type and registers with the HID core.
-2. ISH Implementation: Block Diagram
-====================================
+ISH Implementation: Block Diagram
+=================================
::
| ISH Hardware/Firmware(FW) |
----------------------------
-3. High level processing in above blocks
-========================================
+High level processing in above blocks
+=====================================
-3.1 Hardware Interface
-----------------------
+Hardware Interface
+------------------
The ISH is exposed as "Non-VGA unclassified PCI device" to the host. The PCI
product and vendor IDs are changed from different generations of processors. So
the source code which enumerates drivers needs to update from generation to
generation.
-3.2 Inter Processor Communication (IPC) driver
-----------------------------------------------
+Inter Processor Communication (IPC) driver
+------------------------------------------
Location: drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ipc
The IPC message uses memory mapped I/O. The registers are defined in
hw-ish-regs.h.
-3.2.1 IPC/FW message types
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+IPC/FW message types
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There are two types of messages, one for management of link and another for
messages to and from transport layers.
Bit 31: doorbell trigger (signal H/W interrupt to the other side)
Other bits are reserved, should be 0.
-3.2.2 Transport layer interface
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Transport layer interface
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To abstract HW level IPC communication, a set of callbacks is registered.
The transport layer uses them to send and receive messages.
Refer to struct ishtp_hw_ops for callbacks.
-3.3 ISH Transport layer
------------------------
+ISH Transport layer
+-------------------
Location: drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/
-3.3.1 A Generic Transport Layer
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+A Generic Transport Layer
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The transport layer is a bi-directional protocol, which defines:
- Set of commands to start, stop, connect, disconnect and flow control
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/technical-\
specifications/dcmi-hi-1-0-spec.pdf "Chapter 7: Bus Message Layer"
-3.3.2 Connection and Flow Control Mechanism
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Connection and Flow Control Mechanism
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Each FW client and a protocol is identified by a UUID. In order to communicate
to a FW client, a connection must be established using connect request and
Either side can send disconnect request bus message to end communication. Also
the link will be dropped if major FW reset occurs.
-3.3.3 Peer to Peer data transfer
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Peer to Peer data transfer
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Peer to Peer data transfer can happen with or without using DMA. Depending on
the sensor bandwidth requirement DMA can be enabled by using module parameter
Currently, ISH FW decides to send over DMA if ISHTP message is more than 3 IPC
fragments and via IPC otherwise.
-3.3.4 Ring Buffers
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Ring Buffers
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
When a client initiates a connection, a ring of RX and TX buffers is allocated.
The size of ring can be specified by the client. HID client sets 16 and 32 for
have processed the last message and may not have enough flow control credits
to send. Same thing holds true on receive side and flow control is required.
-3.3.5 Host Enumeration
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Host Enumeration
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The host enumeration bus command allows discovery of clients present in the FW.
There can be multiple sensor clients and clients for calibration function.
- Once host received properties for that last discovered client, it considers
ISHTP device fully functional (and allocates DMA buffers)
-3.4 HID over ISH Client
------------------------
+HID over ISH Client
+-------------------
Location: drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid
- Process Get/Set feature request
- Get input reports
-3.5 HID Sensor Hub MFD and IIO sensor drivers
----------------------------------------------
+HID Sensor Hub MFD and IIO sensor drivers
+-----------------------------------------
The functionality in these drivers is the same as an external sensor hub.
Refer to
Documentation/hid/hid-sensor.rst for HID sensor
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio for IIO ABIs to user space.
-3.6 End to End HID transport Sequence Diagram
----------------------------------------------
+End to End HID transport Sequence Diagram
+-----------------------------------------
::
| | | |
-3.7 ISH Debugging
------------------
+ISH Debugging
+-------------
To debug ISH, event tracing mechanism is used. To enable debug logs::
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/intel_ish/enable
cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
-3.8 ISH IIO sysfs Example on Lenovo thinkpad Yoga 260
------------------------------------------------------
+ISH IIO sysfs Example on Lenovo thinkpad Yoga 260
+-------------------------------------------------
::