IMX6 USDHC card detection
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Oct 5 05:35:27 EDT 2013
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:20:01PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> DATA3 as Card Detection Pin:
> If this bit is set, DATA3 should be pulled down to act as a card
> detection pin. Be cautious when using this feature, because DATA3 is
> also a chip-select for the SPI mode. A pull-down on this pin and CMD0
> may set the card into the SPI mode, which the uSDHC does not support.
The issue there is if the pull-down is too strong.
DATA3 is pulled up by the SD card via a 50k internal resistor. If the
IMX6 is programmed to pull down via 100k, that will result in 2/3s of
the card supply on DATA3. That should be fine given the card thresholds:
Min Max
Input High Voltage VIH 0.625*VDD VDD+0.3 V
Input Low Voltage VIL VSS-0.3 0.25*VDD V
Of course, if a board has an additional external pull-down resistor on
DAT3, that will lower the DATA3 voltage level, so that's where a problem
could be.
Would you be happy if I added new pinctrl entries to imx6qdl.dtsi which
pulled down the DATA3 line - that way, existing DT setups will not be
affected, and they can switch over if they wish to using controller
based card detection.
Thanks.
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