[PATCH v2 08/16] mmc: sdhci-omap: Add support to override f_max and iodelay from pdata

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Fri Feb 16 00:08:51 PST 2018


Hi,

On Wednesday 14 February 2018 10:54 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> [180214 09:53]:
>> On 5 February 2018 at 13:50, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon at ti.com> wrote:
>>> DRA74x EVM Rev H EVM comes with revision 2.0 silicon. However, earlier
>>> versions of EVM can come with either revision 1.1 or revision 1.0 of
>>> silicon.
>>>
>>> The device-tree file is written to support rev 2.0 of silicon.
>>> pdata-quirks are used to then override the settings needed for
>>> PG 1.1 silicon.
>>>
>>> PG 1.1 silicon has limitations w.r.t frequencies at which MMC1/2/3
>>> can operate as well as different IOdelay numbers.
>>
>> I fail to understand the need for platform data. Why can't DT be used
>> for the older revisions as well?

It was decided to have dt file for a single soc revision. So the default dts
corresponds to rev 2.0.
> 
> Maybe the silicon revision is not available via soc_device_match()?

hmm.. looks like we can get rid of pdata if we use soc_device_match. Thanks for
the hint.

Regards
Kishon



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