This patch is not specific to the AU1200 SD driver, but thats what we used to debug and verify this, so thats why it is applied against the linux-mips tree. Pierre, I'm sending this to you too, because I thought you may be interested. Large SD cards (>=2GB) report a physical block size greater then 512 bytes (2GB reports 1024, and 4GB reports 2048). However, a sample of different brands of USB attached SD readers have shown that the logical block size is still forced to 512 bytes. The original mmc_block code was setting the block size to whatever the card was reporting, thereby causing much pain and suffering when using a card initialized elsewhere (bad partition tables, invalid FAT tables, etc). This patch forces the block size to be 512 bytes, and adjusts the capacity accordingly. With this you should be able to happily use very large cards interchangeably between platforms. At least, it has worked for us. Comments welcome, Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer AMD - Personal Connectivity Solutions Group <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>
PATCH: Force MMC/SD to 512 byte block sizes. Angry customers and investigation into USB attached MMC/SD readers have lead us to believe that the SD device block size should be fixed at 512 bytes regardless of the block size reported by the card. This comes into play with >2G cards. After applying this fix, filesystems written with a USB card reader can be read by the MMC subsystem and vice-versa. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c b/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c index d91fcf7..96fa121 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.c @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ static struct mmc_blk_data *mmc_blk_allo { struct mmc_blk_data *md; int devidx, ret; + unsigned long cap; devidx = find_first_zero_bit(dev_use, MMC_NUM_MINORS); if (devidx >= MMC_NUM_MINORS) @@ -356,10 +357,19 @@ static struct mmc_blk_data *mmc_blk_allo sprintf(md->disk->disk_name, "mmcblk%d", devidx); sprintf(md->disk->devfs_name, "mmc/blk%d", devidx); - md->block_bits = card->csd.read_blkbits; + if (card->csd.read_blkbits > 9) { + md->block_bits = 9; + + cap = card->csd.capacity << + (card->csd.read_blkbits - 9); + } + else { + md->block_bits = card->csd.read_blkbits; + cap = card->csd.capacity; + } blk_queue_hardsect_size(md->queue.queue, 1 << md->block_bits); - set_capacity(md->disk, card->csd.capacity); + set_capacity(md->disk, cap); } out: return md; @@ -373,7 +383,7 @@ mmc_blk_set_blksize(struct mmc_blk_data mmc_card_claim_host(card); cmd.opcode = MMC_SET_BLOCKLEN; - cmd.arg = 1 << card->csd.read_blkbits; + cmd.arg = 1 << ((card->csd.read_blkbits > 9) ? 9 : card->csd.read_blkbits); cmd.flags = MMC_RSP_R1; err = mmc_wait_for_cmd(card->host, &cmd, 5); mmc_card_release_host(card);