On 14/07/2022 6:02 pm, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:27 AM Christian Kohlschütter
<christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mmc/SD-card initialization may fail on NanoPi r4s with
"mmc1: problem reading SD Status register" /
"mmc1: error -110 whilst initialising SD card"
Moreover, rebooting would also sometimes hang.
This is caused by the gpio entry for the vcc3v0-sd regulator;
even though it appears to be the correct GPIO pin, the presence
of the binding causes these errors.
Fix the regulator to drop the gpio binding and add a comment
to prevent accidental reintroduction of that entry.
Signed-off-by: Christian Kohlschütter <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi4.dtsi | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi4.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi4.dtsi
index 8c0ff6c96e03..d5f8a62e01be 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi4.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi4.dtsi
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ vcc1v8_s3: vcc1v8-s3 {
vcc3v0_sd: vcc3v0-sd {
compatible = "regulator-fixed";
enable-active-high;
- gpio = <&gpio0 RK_PA1 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ // gpio = <&gpio0 RK_PA1 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; // breaks SDHC card support
This change only means that the regulator no longer gets cycled when
it probes. It's not a proper fix. You're leaving the kernel without
any control over SD card power, and with whatever state the bootloader
left the GPIO in. If the bootloader left the GPIO low, then you don't
get to use the SD card, ever.
It cycles because of the lack of regulator-boot-on, so the driver
requests the GPIO with initial low state, and then drives it
high to enable the regulator.
Hmm, that's a good point - by the time we get to Linux, we should have control over the VCC_SDIO regulator and the I/O domain as well, so a full clean reset should really be no problem :/
The "Tinkerboard problem" I was thinking of is when the SD card is the boot medium, VCC_SDIO stays at 1.8V over a reboot but the I/O domain gets reset back to 3.3V mode, thus cannot see a logic high on any of the I/O lines, thus the boot ROM gives up after failing to detect the card. If we're still able to boot as far as Linux, it's probably a different thing. Apologies for the confusion.
pinctrl-names = "default";
pinctrl-0 = <&sdmmc0_pwr_h>;
regulator-always-on;
I think dropping "regulator-always-on" so that Linux can cycle power
and properly reset the SD card is the proper fix to the card being
stuck in UHS and not responding.
Also, the regulator used is RT9193, according to the schematics. That
chip has an enable delay under 50 micro-seconds. If that needs to be
modeled, then add regulator-enable-ramp-delay.
Indeed, if it's a slow regulator and we're simply trying to probe the card too soon before its supply voltage has actually stabilised, that sounds entirely plausible, particularly if the failure is only intermittent.
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