Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: mmc: meson-gx: add ddr-access-quirk property

From: Martin Blumenstingl
Date: Tue May 14 2019 - 13:52:29 EST


Hi Neil,

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:16 AM Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On the Amlogic G12A SoC family, (only) the SDIO controller has a bug which
> makes any DDR access from the MMC controller fail.
>
> Add the amlogic,ddr-access-quirk property so signal this particular
> controller has this bug and needs a quirk to work properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/amlogic,meson-gx.txt | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/amlogic,meson-gx.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/amlogic,meson-gx.txt
> index 13e70409e8ac..f8914dab06c6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/amlogic,meson-gx.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/amlogic,meson-gx.txt
> @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ Required properties:
> clock rate requested by the MMC core.
> - resets : phandle of the internal reset line
>
> +Optional properties:
> +- amlogic,ddr-access-quirk: set when HW cannot access the DDR memory, like on
> + the G12A SDIO controller.
(I believe we cannot use a standard property like "dma-ranges" to
disable DMA access)
personally I prefer "amlogic,no-direct-memory-access" or
"amlogic,no-ddr-access", but if Rob is happy with the current naming
then I'm happy as well


Regards
Martin