[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: sunxi: Add driver for SD/MMC hosts found on Allwinner sunxi SoCs

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12/15/2013 10:19 PM, David Lanzendörfer wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Do you have something like this in mind? ->
>>> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-exynos.c
>> No, as explained in my previous mail the idmac being shared seemed to be the
>> only 2 things the dw-mmc controller and the sunxi-mmc controller have in
>> common.
> Ok.
>
>> Looking at dw_mmc-exynos.c it still pretty much is the classic dw-mmc
>> controller with some extra bits, where as the sunxi controller is
>> significantly different (which allows us to write a significant simpler
>> driver).
> Do you have an outline for such a driver as you imagine it?
> I'd be interested into some "experiments".
> Maybe you have a repository where you could push a dedicated tree
> for some colaboration on this?

I think that we're miss-communicating a bit here. What I'm trying to say
is that trying to extend the dw_mmc driver to support sunxi is a bad
idea because the sunxi hardware is quite different. And that the
sunxi hardware having autostop allows the existing sunxi-mci driver to
be much simpler then the dw-mmc driver.

IOW the much simpler driver already exists and it is the sunxi-mci
driver.

Regards,

Hans