Re: Speed of SDHCI subsystem

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 10:12:04 EST


On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:45:50 +0200
"J.A. MagallÃn" <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Thanks, now its clear it is related to hardware limits.
> I suppose this controler is a cheap one...
> Things in the Aspire One are these:
>

*snip*

> 04:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. SD/MMC Host Controller
> 04:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Standard SD Host Controller
> 04:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. MS Host Controller
> 04:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. xD Host Controller

That chip is capable of very high speeds but unfortunately the systems
aren't always properly wired for it so the high-speed mode was disabled
by default in the chips.

You can force it on by applying this patch:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4b76193774b463b922cab2f92450efb20d29ef0;hp=d6d8de33415ca7598fe66d933b6556fa8f89afe2

Rgds
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-- Pierre Ossman

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