[RFC PATCH 2/3] RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Tue Nov 3 13:28:11 EST 2020


On 03/11/2020 18:10, Cyril.Jean at microchip.com wrote:
> On 11/3/20 3:07 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 2:20 PM Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk> wrote:

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>>>> @Cyril : Can we enable both eMMC & sdcard at the same time ?
>>> I would put /both/ in but only enable the one in use for the moment.
>>> Our boards are booting of eMMC as supplied, so this isn't going to work
>>> as well. The eMMC is 8bit wide, and thus is only delivering 11MB/sec
>>> instead of 22MB/sec. This performance is still not great, but losing
>>> half the data-rate is just not good.
>>>
>> I am not sure what should be enabled by default. Updating sdcard is much
>> easier than eMMC card and we use that approach.
>>
>> @Cyril: Is there a way that we can enable both ?
>>
> Yes, we can enable both but this requires a modification to the FPGA
> design. One of the guys prototyped this while I was away. We will move
> this along. This will require reprogramming the FPGA with a new design
> and HSS version.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cyril.

I either missed or couldn't find a way of forcing the boot mode to be
from the SD slot. Have I missed something? At the moment we'd like to
have more storage available as the ~7G free on the eMMC is not enough.

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