[PATCH 2/3] mmc: sunxi: Fix DDR MMC timings for A80

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Mon May 30 11:05:29 PDT 2016


Hi,

On 30-05-16 14:59, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 29-05-16 09:04, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>>>
>>> The MMC clock timings were incorrectly calculated, when the conversion
>>> from delay value to delay phase was done.
>>>
>>> The 50M DDR and 50M DDR 8bit timings are off, and make eMMC DDR
>>> unusable. Unfortunately it seems different controllers on the same SoC
>>> have different timings. The new settings are taken from mmc2, which is
>>> commonly used with eMMC.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, I'm not really all that familiar with mmc, but can't an external
>> sdcard connected to mmc0 use DDR too ? Assuming the answer is yes, then
>> we really need to update the driver to use the right per controller
>> timings.
>
> I would very much like that to happen. However, SD card UHS-1 DDR modes
> require 1.8V signaling, which is unavailable on _all_ sunxi boards.
> This seems like a limit of most of the SoCs not having a separate IO
> voltage rail for mmc pins.
>
> Until then, I wouldn't worry that much.
>
>>> The settings for the slower timing modes seem to work despite being
>>> wrong, so leave them be.
>>
>>
>> If you're sure the timings are wrong, please fix them. Sometimes wrong
>> timings do seem to work, but lead to unreliable communication, or turn
>> out to work on some boards and not on others due to routing differences.
>
> Unfortunately I did try putting in the correct numbers for them, and my
> eMMC then failed to probe. It seems the core switches up from 400kHz to
> 50MHz then to 50MHz DDR, and it fails somewhere in there, maybe at 50MHz.
>
> I'm not sure if we need to add DT bindings to specify different delays
> for different controllers, though. Seems like we'll never actually use
> it.
>
> Hope this answers your questions.

Yes that answers my questions, and with my questions answered, this series is:

Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>

Regards,

Hans




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