Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:26:33 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ticso@cicely.de, ticso@cicely7.cicely.de Cc: mav@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mount root from SD card? Message-ID: <20090122.162633.1849591410.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090122230647.GN50103@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <20090122180518.GK50103@cicely7.cicely.de> <20090122.155741.-470325804.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090122230647.GN50103@cicely7.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> writes:
: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:57:41PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20090122180518.GK50103@cicely7.cicely.de>
: > Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> writes:
: > : On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:02:14PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
: > : > Bernd Walter wrote:
: > : > >As another point:
: > : > >Is it possible to support SHDC with mci some day, or is there a special
: > : > >hardware requirement for SDHC?
: > : >
: > : > SDHC (SD High Capacity) has just a different data addressing scheme (in
: > : > 512bytes blocks instead of bytes). There is no special hardware
: > : > requirements, only minor initialization differences. With present
: > : > mmc/mmcsd modules SDHC should work fine on any controller.
: > :
: > : Good news - thank you for clearification.
: >
: > Now all we need to do is to enhance the boot blocks to be able to boot
: > off the SDHC cards :)
:
: Yes, but since you wrote code to store the kernel inside SPI-flash
: there is a useable workaround available ;-)
: Full loader support would be more interesting than SDHC in boot code
: anyway.
Raj@ did some interesting work in this area for the marvel port...
: > BTW, I found and fixed the bug (at least I think so). We were
: > assuming that all transfers were 512 bytes long. The newly used 16
: > and 64 byte transfers broke that assumption, which is why things broke
: > after Alexander's latest commits. There's still a small chance that
: > there's something borked in the byte swapping code, but I kinda doubt
: > it since I was able to mount root.
: >
: > svn commit r187603 is the fix.
:
: Great!
Well, it doesn't work in 4-bit bus mode. Of course, I'm not sure it
ever worked in 4-bit bus mode...
Warner
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