SDIO multiplexing
andrzej zaborowski
balrogg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 13:37:38 CEST 2008
On 28/04/2008, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > Basically a form of SDIO multiplexing.
> > Other options would be SPI.
>
>
> We once asked Samuel about SPI, and he said that it would be slower,
> but still good enough. (In real life, the theoretically possible
> maximum speed is rarely reached anyway.)
>
> Without digging through the Atheros driver, I don't know how much work
> it would be to put it on SPI. If the abstraction is clean, it could be
> very simple. If not, a pain.
You'd need to also adapt the mmc/sd stack in linux/drivers/mmc/ to use
the SPI mode because it's not supported by linux at the moment. In
this mode different MMC commands are allowed and the state machine is
a little different. There may already be patches available somewhere.
Regards
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