Re: [PATCH 4/4] mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: Remove the ENGcm07207 workaround

From: BenoÃt ThÃbaudeau
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 12:39:08 EST


On 2017/05/29 at 16:42, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 29 May 2017 at 10:07, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/05/17 13:05, BenoÃt ThÃbaudeau wrote:
>>> The SDHCI_QUIRK_NO_MULTIBLOCK quirk was used as a workaround for the
>>> ENGcm07207 erratum. However, it caused excruciatingly slow SD transfers
>>> (300 kB/s on average), and this erratum actually does not imply that
>>> multiple-block transfers are not supported, so this was overkill.
>>>
>>> The suggested workaround for this erratum is to set SYSCTL.RSTA, but the
>>> simple DAT line software reset (which resets the DMA circuit among
>>> others) triggered by sdhci_finish_data() in case of errors seems to be
>>> sufficient. Indeed, generating errors in a controlled manner on i.MX25
>>> using the FEVT register right in the middle of read data transfers
>>> without this quirk shows that nothing is written to the buffer by the
>>> eSDHC past CMD12, and no extra Auto CMD12 is sent with AC12EN set, so
>>> the data transfers on AHB are properly aborted. For write data
>>> transfers, neither extra data nor extra Auto CMD12 is sent, as expected.
>>> Moreover, after intensive stress tests on i.MX25, removing
>>> SDHCI_QUIRK_NO_MULTIBLOCK seems to be safe.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: BenoÃt ThÃbaudeau <benoit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Aside from one comment below...
>>
>> I would expect to see Acks from other sdhci-esdhc-imx users. Nevertheless,
>> for sdhci:
>
> Yes, I would also appreciate some ack/tested by, from the
> corresponding sdhci variant users of this series.
>
> However, to allow it to get some results from linux-next, I have
> queued up this series for next (amending $subject patch according to
> the comment from Adrian). Thanks!

Please note that I had superseded this series with a v2 following Adrian's
comment.

>>
>> Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>
> [...]

Best regards,
BenoÃt