> Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> hat am 19. Januar 2016 um 22:00 geschrieben: > > > Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This patch series based on the suggestion of Scott Branden to implement > > bcm2835 support into sdhci-iproc [1]. > > > > These changes provide the following advantages: > > * no need to maintain a separate driver for bcm2835 > > * improve support and test coverage of bcm2835 mmc support > > * get the rid of SDHCI_CAPABILITIES hack in bcm2835_sdhci_readl > > * increase write performance by avoiding delays in write ops > > > > Patch 1 and 2 adopt two sdhci-bcm2835 fixes to sdhci-iproc. The third patch > > tries to specify as much quirks as possible in the bcm283x.dtsi as possible. > > Patch 4 and 5 are the actually changes for bcm2835 support. > > > > These series has been tested on Raspberry Pi B with dd (direct I/O): > > > > sdhci-bcm2835 > > > > 378 kB/s WRITE > > 10,6 MB/s READ > > > > sdhci-iproc (after applying patch series) > > > > 881 kB/s WRITE > > 10,8 MB/s READ > > I started a while ago at looking at merging the sdhost driver (for the > other controller on these boards that you can use instead), since > apparently the hardware's a better choice to use. This looks like a > really nice simplification for us for the Arasan mode, though. Would > you also want to delete the old 2835 driver after this series? Yes, that would be a necessary step. I don't know when it's the right time. What is the usual procedure for such a necessary driver? > > These patches are all: > > Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
