[PATCH v3] mmc: sunxi: Handle the 'New Timing' mode
From: Maxime Ripard <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-30 16:26:13
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 06:41:45PM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
Some MMC devices as mmc2 in the A83T or mmc1 and mmc2 in the H3 have a 'New Timing' mode. When aware about this capability, and when this is possible (clock rate great enough), the clock driver switches the MMC clock to the 'new mode', meaning that the phase delays are defined in the MMC registers instead of in the clock registers. To alert the MMC driver about this switch, the clock driver returns the error code EPERM on calling clk_set_phase(). This patch makes the MMC driver to handle this returned code and to activate or not the 'New Timing' mode on the MMC side. Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <redacted> --- Some explanations: In the old timing, the phase delays are set in the clock only (that's why there is a function clk_set_phase() which is called from the MMC side). In the new timing, the delays are in the MMC register SDXC_REG_NTSR only. The new timing works only when the clock rate is greater or equal to 50MHz. There are 2 flags saying that the new timing is used: - the bit 'mode select' in the clock register, and - the bit 'new timing' in the MMC register. Both bits must be set/reset at the same time, otherwise the device does not work (tested with wifi and eMMC in H3 and A83T boards). So, some synchronization must exist. The previous versions was using a DT property for the MMC and a flag in the clock driver. This did work with a correct configuration on both sides, but experiment showed that it was easy to do an error.
I still believe that we will need a property, at least to identify on which we can try the new mode, and on which clocks it's irrelevant (at least for the A33 and A83T). However, I also believe we should make that mode switching explicit through a function call, instead of relying on some side effect (of some non-upstream code). Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20160830/b503a2fa/attachment.sig>