Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: am57xx-idk: Remove support for voltage switching for SD card

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 10:20:42 EST


* Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@xxxxxx> [190502 01:48]:
> If UHS speed modes are enabled, a compatible SD card switches down to
> 1.8V during enumeration. If after this a software reboot/crash takes
> place and on-chip ROM tries to enumerate the SD card, the difference in
> IO voltages (host @ 3.3V and card @ 1.8V) may end up damaging the card.
>
> The fix for this is to have support for power cycling the card in
> hardware (with a PORz/soft-reset line causing a power cycle of the
> card). Since am571x-, am572x- and am574x-idk don't have this
> capability, disable voltage switching for these boards.
>
> The major effect of this is that the maximum supported speed
> mode is now high speed(50 MHz) down from SDR104(200 MHz).

This sounds a bit urgent, does it also need a stable tag or is
it safe to apply against any earlier kernels?

Regards,

Tony

> Signed-off-by: Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi
> index f7bd26458915..42e433da79ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi
> @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@
> vqmmc-supply = <&ldo1_reg>;
> bus-width = <4>;
> cd-gpios = <&gpio6 27 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; /* gpio 219 */
> + no-1-8-v;
> };
>
> &mmc2 {
> --
> 2.19.2
>