Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci: Fix incorrect switch to HS mode

From: Faiz Abbas
Date: Thu Nov 28 2019 - 03:20:38 EST


Hi,

On 19/09/19 5:27 PM, Alan Cooper wrote:
> This does correct the sequence of switching to HS400 but it might be
> safest to just add this to the latest until it gets a little testing
> to make sure it doesn't expose some bug in existing controllers.
>
> Thanks
> Al
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:52 AM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 13:51, Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> When switching from any MMC speed mode that requires 1.8v
>>> (HS200, HS400 and HS400ES) to High Speed (HS) mode, the system
>>> ends up configured for SDR12 with a 50MHz clock which is an illegal
>>> mode.
>>>
>>> This happens because the SDHCI_CTRL_VDD_180 bit in the
>>> SDHCI_HOST_CONTROL2 register is left set and when this bit is
>>> set, the speed mode is controlled by the SDHCI_CTRL_UHS field
>>> in the SDHCI_HOST_CONTROL2 register. The SDHCI_CTRL_UHS field
>>> will end up being set to 0 (SDR12) by sdhci_set_uhs_signaling()
>>> because there is no UHS mode being set.
>>>
>>> The fix is to change sdhci_set_uhs_signaling() to set the
>>> SDHCI_CTRL_UHS field to SDR25 (which is the same as HS) for
>>> any switch to HS mode.

This change has broken High speed mode in SD card for me in AM65x-evm. I
guess this change only needs to be done for eMMC. SDR25 is decidedly not
the same as high speed for SD card.

Thanks,
Faiz