Re: [PATCH] mmc: mmci: Add new VE MMCI variant

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Hi Pawel,

On 24 January 2013 13:36, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Ulf,
>
> On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 11:05 +0000, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 14 December 2012 16:38, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The Versatile Express IOFPGA as shipped on VECD 5.0 (bitfiles v108/208
>> > and v116/216) contains a modified version of the PL180 MMCI, with
>> > PeriphID Configuration value changed to 0x2.
>> >
>> > This version adds an optional "hardware flow control" feature. When
>> > enabled MMC card clock will be automatically disabled when FIFO is
>> > about to over/underflow and re-enabled once the host retrieved some
>> > data. This makes the controller immune to over/underrun errors caused
>> > by big interrupt handling latencies.
>> >
>> > This patch adds relevant device variant in the driver.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
>
>> So enabling this in the variant will also effect how the clock is
>> being set/gated when the clock freq is 0.
>>
>> Please have a look at "mmc: mmci: Gate the clock when freq is 0", a
>> patch I sent out as of 12 dec.
>> That patch is using the power register to gate the clock. Will that
>> work with this new version of the PL180 as well? If not, that patch
>> must be reworked.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you meant here, but I see that v2 of your patch
> does whatever it is supposed to do to ST variants only, so I guess your
> objections don't apply any more?

Correct. ST-variants requires to use the POWER register to gate the
clock. So if this is not the case for VE you don't need to bother,
otherwise you should set "pwrreg_clkgate" for this variant as well.

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson
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