[PATCH] ARM: dts: Remove vmmc-supply for mmc at 12220000 on arndale-octa board

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Sat Apr 26 04:19:37 PDT 2014


Javi Merino wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:35:35PM +0100, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On 25.04.2014 22:30, Javi Merino wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:16:30PM +0100, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > >> On 25.04.2014 22:11, Javi Merino wrote:
> > >>> d726ca2d3316 (ARM: dts: Add vmmc-supply to MMC on arndale-octa board)
> > >>> added the vmmc-supply to nodes mmc at 12200000 and mmc at 12220000 of the
> > >>> DT.  However, this makes the kernel fail to boot on the arndale-octa
> > >>> spews:
> > >>>
> > >>> [    5.060000] dwmmc_exynos 12200000.mmc: num-slots property not
> found, assuming 1 slot is available
> > >>> [    5.065000] platform 12200000.mmc: Driver dwmmc_exynos requests
> probe deferral
> > >>> [    5.075000] dwmmc_exynos 12220000.mmc: num-slots property not
> found, assuming 1 slot is available
> > >>> [    5.085000] platform 12220000.mmc: Driver dwmmc_exynos requests
> probe deferral
> > >>>
> > >>> And eventually hangs.  Without the vmmc-supply property in the
> > >>> mmc at 12220000 node, the kernel boots again.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino at arm.com>
> > >>> ---
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> Note that I don't know *why* removing the property works, all I know
> > >>> is that 3.15-rc2 fails to boot on my Arndale Octa unless I apply
> this
> > >>> patch.
> > >>
> > >> Are you sure you have the required PMIC driver enabled in your kernel
> > >> config?
> > >
> > > I configured the kernel using exynos_defconfig and that gives me:
> > >
> > > # CONFIG_PMIC_ADP5520 is not set
> > > # CONFIG_PMIC_DA903X is not set
> > >
> > > Should I be using other defconfig for this board?  exynos_defconfig
> > > used to work in 3.14.  Cheers,
> >
> > Well, unfortunately exynos_defconfig is known to be far from being
> > reasonable. Right now it should be considered just as a base to
> > configure the kernel for Exynos SoCs. Most of board specific options
> > (and many of SoC-wide ones) need to be selected manually.
> >
> > Anyway, with the number of Exynos boards supported in mainline, I don't
> > think we will be ever going to enable all options for all the supported
> > boards by default in defconfig, especially considering the fact that we
> > will be moving to generic multi_v7_defconfig and likely dropping
> > exynos_defconfig completely.

Well, keeping exynos_defconfig would be helpful even if exynos multiplatform is available. Please see the case of omap2plus_defconfig?

> >
> > As for now, I believe you should just make sure yourself that any
> > options relevant to your board are enabled.
> 
> Great.  And I assume that there isn't a list of those options in the
> web.  So how do I know what options are relevant to my board?  By
> sending emails to linux-samsung-soc whenever it fails to boot?
> 
I think, we need to enable all of regarding configs for each exynos boards so that exynos_defconfig can cover whenever.

Thanks,
Kukjin




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