RE: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card controllers use fixed indices

From: Y.b. Lu
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 21:04:08 EST


Hi Vladimir,

I have already upstreamed a patch for all affected layerscape boards.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux.git/commit/?h=imx/dt64&id=342ab37ecaf8c1b10dd3ca9a1271db29a6af0705

Please check whether it works for you.
Thanks.

Best regards,
Yangbo Lu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:50 PM
> To: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>; Rob
> Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>; Ulf Hansson
> <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ashish Kumar <ashish.kumar@xxxxxxx>; Y.b. Lu
> <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>; Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card
> controllers use fixed indices
>
> As the boot order in the kernel continues to change, sometimes it may
> happen that the eSDHC controller mmc@2150000 (the one for eMMC) gets
> probed before the one at mmc@2140000 (for external SD cards). The effect
> is that the eMMC controller gets the /dev/mmcblk0 name, and the SD card
> gets /dev/mmcblk1.
>
> Since the introduction of this SoC, that has never happened in practice,
> even though it was never guaranteed in theory. Setting
> "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" in /proc/cmdline has always caused the kernel to
> use the second partition from the SD card as the rootfs.
>
> Preserve that old behavior by adding some aliases which create naming
> consistency:
> - the SD card controller uses /dev/mmcblk0
> - the eMMC controller uses /dev/mmcblk1
>
> The aliases are parsed by mmc_alloc_host() in drivers/mmc/core/host.c.
>
> Cc: Ashish Kumar <Ashish.Kumar@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28.dts | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28.dts
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28.dts
> index 8161dd237971..7d292999f8da 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28.dts
> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ aliases {
> serial2 = &lpuart1;
> spi0 = &fspi;
> spi1 = &dspi2;
> + mmc0 = &esdhc;
> + mmc1 = &esdhc1;
> };
>
> buttons0 {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> index 13cdc958ba3e..c0786b713791 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-qds.dts
> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ aliases {
> gpio2 = &gpio3;
> serial0 = &duart0;
> serial1 = &duart1;
> + mmc0 = &esdhc;
> + mmc1 = &esdhc1;
> };
>
> chosen {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts
> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts
> index 1efb61cff454..c1d1ba459307 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ aliases {
> crypto = &crypto;
> serial0 = &duart0;
> serial1 = &duart1;
> + mmc0 = &esdhc;
> + mmc1 = &esdhc1;
> };
>
> chosen {
> --
> 2.25.1