Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board

[Ben Dooks]

On 03/11/2020 18:10, Cyril.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 11/3/20 3:07 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
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> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 2:20 PM Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > > > @Cyril : Can we enable both eMMC & sdcard at the same time ?
> > > I would put /both/ in but only enable the one in use for the moment.
> > > Our boards are booting of eMMC as supplied, so this isn't going to work
> > > as well. The eMMC is 8bit wide, and thus is only delivering 11MB/sec
> > > instead of 22MB/sec. This performance is still not great, but losing
> > > half the data-rate is just not good.
> > I am not sure what should be enabled by default. Updating sdcard is much
> > easier than eMMC card and we use that approach.
> >
> > @Cyril: Is there a way that we can enable both ?
> Yes, we can enable both but this requires a modification to the FPGA
> design. One of the guys prototyped this while I was away. We will move
> this along. This will require reprogramming the FPGA with a new design
> and HSS version.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cyril.

I either missed or couldn't find a way of forcing the boot mode to be
from the SD slot. Have I missed something? At the moment we'd like to
have more storage available as the ~7G free on the eMMC is not enough.

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