From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: SD card experts wanted
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:27:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120830032736.GG18708@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201208292317.03322.jbe@pengutronix.de>
On 23:17 Wed 29 Aug , Juergen Beisert wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> any SD/MMC card experts here? I have trouble with the current SD/MMC detection
> code in Barebox.
> The function sd_change_freq() in the file 'drivers/mci/mci-core.c' tries to
> detect the max. transfer frequency the attached card can handle. Nothing
> special here, but the following line in this routine fails on my system:
>
> if ((__be32_to_cpu(switch_status[4]) & 0x0f000000) == 0x01000000)
>
> It checks the clock speed capabilities returned from the card. As far as I
> understand the "simplified SD card spec" the "0x01000000" means SDR25 speed,
> which means still "single transfer per clock at 25 MHz clock rate". But the
> sd_change_freq() routine sets the MMC_MODE_HS bit for this case in the card's
> capabilities variable. The remaining routines in 'drivers/mci/mci-core.c'
> then use 50 MHz for the transfer speed.
>
> This behaviour became an issue here, as my SDHC supports 50 MHz, but the
> attached card only up to 25 MHz. After switching to 50 MHz, the card wasn't
> able to respond anymore.
> For SDHCs which supports only up to 25 MHz this misinterpretation is no issue,
> as the routines still use the 25 MHz, and the SD card can still respond.
>
> "simplified SD card spec" talks about the bit's meaning: seems the regular
> speed was SDR12 which means 12.5 MHz. Then SDR25 cards appear, which are also
> called "high speed card". Could the MMC_MODE_HS just mean this "high speed"
> and using it at 50 MHz is just some kind of typo? Or do MMCs act differently
> and the code mixes SD and MMC features?
I saw it too this isssue
the mmc and sd feature are different with different spec so we need different
code to interpret it
see in the kernel
Best Regards,
J.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-30 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-29 21:17 Juergen Beisert
2012-08-30 3:27 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-08-30 10:04 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-08-30 13:08 ` Juergen Beisert
2012-08-30 16:47 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-08-30 18:05 ` Juergen Beisert
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