[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/6] ARM: kirkwood: mvebu_mmc: Speed up access time

[Pantelis Antoniou]

All applied,

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> On Jan 3, 2015, at 18:06 , drEagle <drEagle at DOUKKI.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> any news for this patch ?
> 
> Regards,
> Gérald,
> 
> Le 23/12/2014 14:01, drEagle a écrit :
>> Hi Pantelis,
>> 
>> Is these patches reviewed and upstreamed ?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Gérald
>> 
>> Le 17/12/2014 11:18, Pantelis Antoniou a écrit :
>>> Hi Gerald,
>>> 
>>> Last pull-req for mmc was last Friday, I intend to issue another this Friday too.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> — Pantelis
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 17, 2014, at 11:22 , drEagle <dreagle at doukki.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Any chance to be included in the next release of u-boot ?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Gérald
>>>> 
>>>> Le 15/12/2014 12:14, Mario Schuknecht a écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2014-12-13 21:35 GMT+01:00 Gérald Kerma <drEagle at doukki.net <mailto:drEagle at doukki.net>>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   This serie of patches speed up access time of MVEBUMMC driver
>>>>> 
>>>>>   This is allowed by a fix in MVEBUMMC init status check inspired from linux MVSDIO driver.
>>>>>            * Hardware weirdness.  The FIFO_EMPTY bit of the HW_STATE
>>>>>            * register is sometimes not set before a while when some
>>>>>            * "unusual" data block sizes are used (such as with the SWITCH
>>>>>            * command), even despite the fact that the XFER_DONE interrupt
>>>>>            * was raised.  And if another data transfer starts before
>>>>>            * this bit comes to good sense (which eventually happens by
>>>>>            * itself) then the new transfer simply fails with a timeout.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   It allows about 10x to 40x faster access time transfer on SHEEVAPLUG MMC
>>>>>   It may also fixes some SD types incompatibilities
>>>>> 
>>>>>   ### before patch
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Marvell>> ext2load mmc 0:1 0x800000 uImage
>>>>>   1613392 bytes read in 977 ms (1.6 MiB/s)
>>>>> 
>>>>>   ### with fix
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Marvell>> ext2load mmc 0:1 0x800000 uImage
>>>>>   1613392 bytes read in 83 ms (18.5 MiB/s)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looks good to me.
>>>>> ACK to this series of patches:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Gérald Kerma (6):
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : Change copyright date
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : Speed up access time
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : FIX debug strings
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : REMOVE unnecessary delays
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : CLEAN code
>>>>>     MVEBUMMC : REMOVE unnecessary delay from init
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    drivers/mmc/mvebu_mmc.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>>>>    include/mvebu_mmc.h     |   1 +
>>>>>    2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>>>>> 
>>>>>   --
>>>>>   2.1.3
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