Mount root from SD card?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <49762621.70104 at FreeBSD.org>
            Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <4976215B.40302 at FreeBSD.org>
: >             Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > In message: <49760E8E.1000609 at FreeBSD.org>
: > : >             Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : > : Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
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: > : > : > M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > : > ...
: > : > : >> mmcsd0: 1983MB <SD Memory Card> at mmc0 30MHz/1bit
: > : > : >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s1
: > : > : >>
: > : > : >> Manual root filesystem specification:
: > : > : >>   <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
: > : > : >>                        eg. ufs:/dev/da0a
: > : > : >>   ?                  List valid disk boot devices
: > : > : >>   <empty line>       Abort manual input
: > : > : >>
: > : > : >> mountroot> ?
: > : > : >>
: > : > : >> List of GEOM managed disk devices:
: > : > : >>   mmcsd0
: > : > : >>
: > : > : >>> Looks like that should be working.
: > : > : >>> mav@ has done a lot of hacking on the mmc code...
: > : > : >>> Do you have 1 wire or 4 wires for your mmc bus on your board?
: > : > : > 
: > : > : > On the board all 4 bus wires are connected (MCD A0-A3) but I've never
: > : > : > seen working 4-bit mode on AT91RM9200 (See PR128987 too).
: > : > : 
: > : > : I have just committed MMCBR_IVAR_CAPS implementation into CURRENT. 
: > : > : Without having it implemented, results can be unpredictable. For 
: > : > : example, mmc layer could enable high-speed timings to reach 30MHz, but 
: > : > : this mode is not implemented for this controller. Booting with verbose 
: > : > : messages enabled could give a bit more information.
: > : > 
: > : > This controller's driver should do the right thing when given a too
: > : > high bus speed: clamp it to the maximum...
: > : > 
: > : > However, maybe the clamps are right.  The above symptom was what I'd
: > : > see when the data read in was corrupted.  It is the whole reason I
: > : > never enabled the multi-block read for this controller.  I could never
: > : > make it work well enough to even make mountroot happy.
: > : 
: > : High-speed timings does not mean just a high frequency. It is some 
: > : different signaling scheme required for higher frequencies, which should 
: > : be explicitly enabled on both card and controller. If one of them is not 
: > : enabled - there will be problems.
: > 
: > Ah, true.  That does need to be a capability then.
: > 
: > : > : What's about 4-bit mode, I see some sc->wire4 variable checked by the 
: > : > : driver, which is never initialized. I don't very understand how this 
: > : > : thing expected to work.
: > : > 
: > : > It is initialized to zero.  It is expected that there will be a
: > : > different mechanism in the future to set it generically on a per-board
: > : > basis.
: > : 
: > : IMHO it is incorrect to disable 4bit mode on that stage, it is too late 
: > : there. It should be done at controller capabilities announcement stage. 
: > : If you are not objecting, I would remove that wire4 variable.
: > 
: > I am objecting.  The code is there so that the rest of the driver does
: > the right thing when doing 4-bit.  It needs to be a capability too.
: > 
: > However, before we go monkeying with this, we need to find the
: > underlying bug.
: 
: Bug of not working 4-bit mode? I have told why it is not working: 
: because zeroed wire4 variable permanently disables it by clearing 
: respective bit in controller SDCR register. I can't imagine any possible 
: usage for this variable in present state. Can you?

Yes.  You don't understand the history here.  Keep it.  I've sent my
preferred patch.  There's clearly a bug here, but wire4 is absolutely
required to my future plans.

Warner