Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] sdhci: Add quirk for Freescale eSDHC controllers

From: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:42:38 +0300

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:07:01 +0300
> Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds SDHCI_QUIRK_FSL quirk. The quirk is used to instruct
> > the sdhci driver about various FSL eSDHC host incompatibilities:
> > 
> 
> No device quirks please. They should be for specific bugs, not lumping
> things together like this. Otherwise we'll soon have an unmanageable
> mess.

OK.

> > 1) FSL eSDHC controllers can support maximum block size up to 4096
> >    bytes. The MBL (Maximum Block Length) field in the capabilities
> >    register extended by one bit.
> > 
> >    (Should we implement a dedicated quirk for this? I.e.
> >     SDHCI_QUIRK_MAX_BLK_SZ_4096?)
> > 
> 
> Yes please. It would have to mean "always support 4096" though, not
> "turn reserved bit 18 into a block length bit".

OK.

> > 2) sdhci_init() is needed after error conditions.
> > 
> >    (Can we safely do this for all controllers?)
> > 
> 
> Please investigate which part of sdhci_init() is needed. How does it
> break without this?

After reset eSDHC lose signal/interrupt enable states:

Before reset:

sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000008 | Version:  0x00000000
sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000008 | Blk cnt:  0x00000000
sdhci: Argument: 0x000001aa | Trn mode: 0x00000000
sdhci: Present:  0xff850000 | Host ctl: 0x00000021
sdhci: Power:    0x00000000 | Blk gap:  0x00000000
sdhci: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00001077
sdhci: Timeout:  0x00000000 | Int stat: 0x00000000
sdhci: Int enab: 0x007f0003 | Sig enab: 0x007f0003
sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000001
sdhci: Caps:     0x01e30000 | Max curr: 0x00000000
sdhci: ===========================================

after sdhci_reset(host, SDHCI_RESET_CMD):

sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000008 | Version:  0x00000000
sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000008 | Blk cnt:  0x00000000
sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000
sdhci: Present:  0xff850000 | Host ctl: 0x00000021
sdhci: Power:    0x00000000 | Blk gap:  0x00000000
sdhci: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00001077
sdhci: Timeout:  0x00000000 | Int stat: 0x00000000
sdhci: Int enab: 0x017f0003 | Sig enab: 0x00700002
sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000001
sdhci: Caps:     0x01e30000 | Max curr: 0x00000000
sdhci: ===========================================

After sdhci_reset(host, SDHCI_RESET_DATA):

sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
sdhci: Sys addr: 0x00000008 | Version:  0x00000000
sdhci: Blk size: 0x00000008 | Blk cnt:  0x00000000
sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000000
sdhci: Present:  0xff850000 | Host ctl: 0x00000021
sdhci: Power:    0x00000000 | Blk gap:  0x00000000
sdhci: Wake-up:  0x00000000 | Clock:    0x00001077
sdhci: Timeout:  0x00000000 | Int stat: 0x00000000
sdhci: Int enab: 0x117f003f | Sig enab: 0x00000000
sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000001
sdhci: Caps:     0x01e30000 | Max curr: 0x00000000
sdhci: ===========================================

> > 3) Small udelay is needed to make eSDHC work in PIO mode. Without
> >    the delay reading causes endless interrupt storm, and writing
> >    corrupts data. The first guess would be that we must wait for
> >    some bit in some register, but I didn't find any reliable bits
> >    that changes before and after the delay. Though, more investigation
> >    on this is in my todo list.
> 
> Please try to investigate more, but if you cannot improve it further
> then a specific quirk can be added.

No luck so far... :-/

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
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