Messages in this thread | | | From | Ulf Hansson <> | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2018 14:46:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-cadence: send tune request twice to work around errata |
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On 4 April 2018 at 11:05, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote: > Hi. > > 2018-04-04 16:35 GMT+09:00 Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>: >> On 27 March 2018 at 11:29, Masahiro Yamada >> <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote: >>> Cadence sent out an errata report to their customers of this IP. >>> This errata is not so severe, but the tune request should be sent >>> twice to avoid the potential issue. >>> >>> Quote from the report: >>> >>> Problem Summary >>> --------------- >>> The IP6116 SD/eMMC PHY design has a timing issue on receive data path. >>> This issue may lead to an incorrect values of read/write pointers of >>> the synchronization FIFO. Such a situation can happen at the SDR104 >>> and HS200 tuning procedure when the PHY is requested to change a phase >>> of sampling clock when moving to the next tuning iteration. >>> >>> Workarounds >>> ----------- >>> The following are valid workarounds to resolve the issue: >>> >>> 1. In eMMC mode, software sends tune request twice instead of once at >>> each iteration. This means that the clock phase is not changed on >>> the second request so there is no potential for clock instability. >>> 2. In SD mode, software must not use the hardware tuning and instead >>> perform an almost identical procedure to eMMC, using the HRS34 Tune >>> Force register. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> >> >> Do you want this to be tagged for stable as well? And perhaps you >> could add a fixes tag? > > > It would be nicer to make it a back-port candidate, > but this patch can not cleanly apply to the initial commit of this driver. > > > If you apply it for -next, it would be fine with me.
Okay, so I have queued it up for 4.18, thanks!
Kind regards Uffe
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