Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] mmc: bcm2835: Add new driver for the sdhost controller.

From: Stefan Wahren
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 16:44:35 EST



> Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> hat am 1. MÃrz 2017 um 20:31 geschrieben:
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> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> writes:
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> >> Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> hat am 1. MÃrz 2017 um 19:00 geschrieben:
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> > From: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > The 2835 has two SD controllers: The Arasan sdhci controller (supported
> >> > by the iproc driver) and a custom sdhost controller. This patch adds a
> >> > driver for the latter.
> >> >
> >> > The sdhci controller supports both sdcard and sdio. The sdhost
> >> > controller supports the sdcard only, but has better performance. Also
> >> > note that the rpi3 has sdio wifi, so driving the sdcard with the sdhost
> >> > controller allows to use the sdhci controller for wifi support.
> >> >
> >> > The configuration is done by devicetree via pin muxing. Both SD
> >> > controller are available on the same pins (2 pin groups = pin 22 to 27 +
> >> > pin 48 to 53). So it's possible to use both SD controllers at the same
> >> > time with different pin groups.
> >> >
> >> > The code was originally written by Phil Elwell in the downstream
> >> > Rasbperry Pi tree, and I did a major cleanup on it (+319, -707 lines
> >> > out of the original 2055) for inclusion.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Ulf, what do you need done to this driver patch before it can go in?
> >> The commit message seems like it could use some rewriting at this point
> >> (Personally I would drop the detailed changelogs from Stefan and Gerd,
> >> updating the last paragraph here to give them credit), but what's
> >> important to me is getting the driver in so that distros don't have to
> >> carry this patch for wifi support.
> >
> > I'm still working on 3 small patches for this driver:
> >
> > 1. trivial error in a register comment
> > 2. ignore SDCMD_FAIL_FLAG during bcm2835_finish_command (downstream [1])
> > 3. remove unnecessary call to bcm2835_reset_internal
> >
> > I plan to submit them on Friday.
> >
> > [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/711cade866c9f865f9b283c9369e9486f27d1fec
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> Should any of those changes block merging the current code, though?

No, but the recursion about bcm2835_finish_command() and bcm2835_transfer_complete() is still there.