[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] samsung: board: support eMMC reset using DT

[Joonyoung Shim]

Hi Sjoerd,

On 01/09/2015 04:50 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:42 +0900, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 01/09/2015 01:21 PM, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
>>> On 01/09/2015 08:23 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 14:44 +0900, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
>>>>> Some exynos boards require special handling of SD4_nRESET_OUT line for
>>>>> eMMC memory to perform complete reboot e.g. Odroid X2/U3/XU3 boards.
>>>>>
>>>>> This will support eMMC reset using DT from reset_misc of samsung common
>>>>> board file and each board files can support eMMC reset on non DT case.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim at samsung.com>
>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/doc/device-tree-bindings/exynos/emmc-reset.txt b/doc/device-tree-bindings/exynos/emmc-reset.txt
>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>> index 0000000..e48e508
>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>> +++ b/doc/device-tree-bindings/exynos/emmc-reset.txt
>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
>>>>> +* Samsung eMMC reset
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Some exynos boards require special handling of SD4_nRESET_OUT line for eMMC
>>>>> +memory to perform complete reboot.
>>>>
>>>> Nitpick, on XU3 the line you apparently need to twiddle is
>>>> SD0_nRESET_OUT.
>>>>
>>
>> Then, i think it's better to omit "SD4_".
>>
>>>> Is this type of usage of this pin specific to the Odroid Exynos boards
>>>> or potentially on more boards? (Sorry for the simple questions, but my
>>>> exynos documentation just says the line exists not what its intended
>>>> usage is). 
>>>
>>> In case of Exynos4, eMMC can be used with sdhci controller or dw-mmc controller.
>>> So Pin name should be used to SD0 or SD4.
>>>
>>> But Exynos5 is only supported the dw-mmc controller.
>>> (So eMMC is used pin-name as "SD0".)
>>>
>>
>> I can find only "SD_4_nRESET_OUT" from exynos4412 user manual and only
>> "SD_0__nRESET_OUT" from exynos5422 user manual.
>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Jaehoon Chung
>>>>
>>>> Fwiw, I did a quick check in the linux code and it doesn't seem to be
>>>> using those pins for currently for any boards. However my X2 does
>>>> successfully reset/reboot in u-boot and linux, so it seems optional
>>>> there. The XU3 does fail to reset itself, so it seems required for that
>>>> board.
>>>>
>>
>> I checked upstream u-boot and hardkernel u-boot and i found codes to
>> reset eMMC using gpio.
>>
>> upstream u-boot: reset_misc() of board/samsung/odroid/odroid.c
>> hardkernel u-boot: reset_cpu() of arch/arm/cpu/armv7/exynos/reset.c
> 
> Yeah u-boot does it, but linux upstream kernel does not. Hence wondering
> about the requirements.
> 

I didn't test Odroid X2 board but my Odroid U3 board cannot reboot
without controlling nRESET_OUT gpio on upstream linux kernel.

Thanks.