Re: Possible bug in sdhci_set_power_reg

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+ Adrian

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 15:23, Phil Elwell <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Uffe,
>
> On 02/08/2019 14:15, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 15:17, Phil Elwell <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi MMC team,
> >>
> >> I've spent some time trying to add a regulator to control power to an SD card
> >> (vmmc-supply) on an SDHCI-equipped system. After a few false starts and red herrings
> >> I found that powering up the regulator during the boot process was effectively disabling
> >> the SDHCI controller. Note that this was despite having regulator-boot-on set in the
> >> device tree.
> >>
> >> The problem seems to be in sdhci_set_power_reg:
> >>
> >>         mmc_regulator_set_ocr(mmc, mmc->supply.vmmc, vdd);
> >>
> >>         if (mode != MMC_POWER_OFF)
> >>                 sdhci_writeb(host, SDHCI_POWER_ON, SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL);
> >>         else
> >>                 sdhci_writeb(host, 0, SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL);
> >>
> >> This looks plausible for the MMC_POWER_OFF case, but setting the SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL
> >> register to SDHCI_POWER_ON (0x01) has the side effect of settings the SD Bus Voltage
> >> Select bits to 0b000 (a reserved value).
> >>
> >> sdhci_set_power_noreg() includes logic to calculate the correct values for the voltage
> >> select bits, so I found that (in my limited test cases) replacing the if/else above
> >> with a chain call to sdhci_set_power_noreg() was sufficient to get everything working.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me what I've been doing wrong, or suggest a better "fix"?
> >
> > There are other sdhci variants having the similar needs, hence we have
> > the flexibility available via using the optional ->set_power()
> > callback.
> >
> > Have a look at sdhci_arasan_set_power(), for example.
>
> I don't understand. Can you explain what writing 0x0001 to the SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL register
> is supposed to do according to the specification? And why is the Arasan SDHCI implementation
> not the default?

Good question, but unfortunate I don't know the SDHCI spec in that
great detail. And in the end, it has turned out that variants seems to
differs in regards to this register.

I looped in Adrian, to see if he has some comments.

Kind regards
Uffe



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