Re: [PATCH v3] mmc: Make ID freq configurable

From: Hein_Tibosch
Date: Sun Jan 03 2010 - 03:01:34 EST


Pierre Ossman wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 09:23:30 +1100
Ben Nizette <bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Broken cards seem to be all over the spectrum, so I wouldn't be
suprised if you find ones that break if you go too low as well.
Yea good point, though given there might not even be a One Freq to Rule Them All, how about:

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From: Ben Nizette <bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH v3] mmc: Make ID freq configurable

While the SD spec specifies a range of frequencies for the ID phase from 100-400kHz, not all cards play by the rules. This patch adds a Kconfig option to allow the user to tweak this to their card/host config, though the default of 250kHz should be fine for all spec-abiding cards and most others besides.

Signed-off-by: Ben Nizette <bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


This is not a good solution. We all use the same pool of cards so we
should all be using the same init sequence. If there isn't a single
frequency where all cards will work, then we'll have to make something
more advanced where the kernel will try the init several times with
different clocking.
As I'm lucky to have main-stream cards that break the rule (on
avr32/AP7) I'll dive deeper into it and see if I can make it "automatic"
so that initialization will work for any of cards. Indeed using a kind
of 'bisect approach' approach.
... although I must say that before Sascha Hauer's patch, we never had
problems with any of the cards, using the controller's minimum freq of
137 Khz.

Hein



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