On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:15:37AM +0100, Steffen Trumtrar wrote: > Hi! > > > 1 Actual Use-Case > ================= > > I have a SDIO card with a Marvell 8787, that works fine on an i.MX53 > with the drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sdio.c driver. On an i.MX35 > however the loading of the firmware errors out on the very first > single-block transfer with 1024 bytes payload. > > > 2 Reason for failure > ==================== > > sdhci defines SDHCI_QUIRK_NO_MULTIBLOCK to completely disable > multi-block transfers for a host. The max_blk_count is simply set to 1 > to achieve this. Currently only i.MX35 and i.MX25 seem to be the only > users of that quirk. The quirk is used to fix an errata on these > SoCs, that says, that "CMD12 abort operation does not abort data > transfer on AHB". (ENGcm07207) > > So, this is a problem regarding only SD and not SDIO. On this special > SDIO card, it looks like multi-block transfer has to be used for > anything >16 bytes. Removing the quirk fixes the firmware loading > error. The device is detected successfully after loading and can > connect to an AP. > > > 3 Question > ========== > > And here comes the question: What would be the correct approach to fix > that and differentiate those two cases, so that we can use multi-block > transfers with CMD53 but not with CMD25(?!) ? > > 1a. As I see no other users of that quirk, it might be okay to rename > it, to better reflect the actual problem it fixes (broken CMD12 or > something). > > 1b. When the host knows with what it deals with (SDIO or SD) set the > max_blk_count according to the quirk. And only in the SD case, that is. > > or > > 2. Introduce a max_blk_count_sd and max_blk_count_sdio and use them > everywhere. Seems rather invasive and over the top. > > or > > 3. something better. > > Ping... Regards, Steffen -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
