Hi Bernard,

Yes the 4 GB/s is a mistake ... by 1000x ;) I meant to write 4 MB/s.

I should look at porting the git kernel to DM355. Using 2.6.10 drivers
feels old-fashioned at times. If it's been ported to DM6446, and the
MV kernels have the DM6446/DM355 register differences coded, than I
guess it shouldn't be huge amount of work.

-- Pete

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Bernard Blackham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am using a kernel retrieved from TI's site on Apr 20/08. I built the
>  > kernel with the only change to the config being the inclusion of the
>  > resizer driver.
>  >
>  > On Windows Vista, my 150x 2GB SD card gets a write speed of > 4 GB/s
>  > over a 128 MB file.
>
>  It's hard to believe those numbers are correct. You're probably hitting the
>  disk cache at 4GB/s with your 128MB file (and then not even that fast -
>  there are probably gross rounding errors because the actual time was so
>  small). It doesn't actually hit the SD card at this speed. The SD card speed
>  can't be more than 25MB/s (4-bit interface * 50MHz clock), and it's even
>  less than that due to SD being a high latency protocol. In reality, it's
>  closer to 20MB/s if everything was running perfectly optimally.
>
>
>  > On the embedded system my write speed is 135 kB/s - an unbelievable 3%!!
>
>  Well, yes that is pretty poor. At least on the DM6446, the git kernel has a
>  different driver with which I was getting speeds of around 2-3 MB/s for
>  write, and a 5-6 MB/s on reads (at the 2.4.24 branch).
>
>
>  > Has anyone looked at the SD driver and/or SD interface? I was not
>  > planning on touching this driver, never mind having to rewrite big
>  > chunks of it :(
>
>  I don't know if anybody is using the git kernel on the DM355. But I'm
>  willing to bet that it would be less effort to port git to DM355 than the SD
>  driver to MV's 2.6.10.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Bernard.
>
>
>
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