RE: Issue with non-UHS-I SD3.0 cards

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Hi Subhash,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subhash Jadavani [mailto:subhashj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:01 PM
> To: linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Nath, Arindam; 'Chris Ball'; 'Philip Rakity'; 'zhangfei gao'
> Subject: Issue with non-UHS-I SD3.0 cards
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeing the issue where "SanDisk Extreme SDHC 8GB Class 10 card" is
> running in "Default Speed" mode even though it supports "High Speed"
> mode.
> After analysis, I found that this card is advertising itself as SD3.0
> card
> (with SD_SPEC=2 and SD_SPEC3=1 in SCR). But current mmc core later
> initialization sequence for SD3.0 cards is such that these non-UHS-I
> SD3.0
> cards runs in Default Speed mode @25MHz.
> 
> Here is Essential conditions to indicate Version 3.00 Card (from SD3.01
> spec)
>     (SD_SPEC=2 and SD_SPEC3=1) :
>     (1) The card shall support CMD6
>     (2) The card shall support CMD8
>     (3) The card shall support CMD42
>     (4) User area capacity shall be up to 2GB (SDSC) or 32GB (SDHC)
>         User area capacity shall be more than or equal to 32GB and
>         up to 2TB (SDXC)
>     (5) Speed Class shall be supported (SDHC or SDXC)

I went through the particular section of the spec again, and IMO, the essential conditions are for the manufacturer of the card to advertise his card as SD3.0 card or otherwise. From software point of view, the SD_SPEC=2 _and_ SD_SPEC3=1 will indicate a SD3.0 card.

Thanks,
Arindam

> 
> 
> So even if SD card doesn't support any of the newly defined UHS-I bus
> speed
> mode, it can advertise itself as SD3.0 cards as long as it supports all
> the
> essential conditions of SD3.0 cards. Given this, these type of cards
> should
> at least run in High Speed mode @50MHZ if it supports HS.
> 
> Here are the changes you have to do to make non-UHS-I SD3.0 cards run
> in
> High Speed Mode @50MHz. Do let me know if looks fine or not, so I can
> post
> the formal patch.
> 
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/core/sd.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/sd.c b/drivers/mmc/core/sd.c
> index 907662a..3fab676 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/core/sd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/sd.c
> @@ -305,6 +305,9 @@ static int mmc_read_switch(struct mmc_card *card)
>                 goto out;
>         }
> 
> +       if (status[13] & 0x02)
> +               card->sw_caps.hs_max_dtr = 50000000;
> +
>         if (card->scr.sda_spec3) {
>                 card->sw_caps.sd3_bus_mode = status[13];
> 
> @@ -347,9 +350,6 @@ static int mmc_read_switch(struct mmc_card *card)
>                 }
> 
>                 card->sw_caps.sd3_curr_limit = status[7];
> -       } else {
> -               if (status[13] & 0x02)
> -                       card->sw_caps.hs_max_dtr = 50000000;
>         }
> 
>  out:
> --
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Subhash
> 
> 


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