* Steve Sakoman <[email protected]> [111005 10:46]:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Tony Lindgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * Dave Hylands <[email protected]> [111004 23:41]:
> 
> >> I then also had to modify drivers/mmc/card/block.c and initializing
> >> disable_multi to 1 in the mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq function to get rid of
> >> the following messages for every I/O request.
> >>
> >> mmcblk0: retrying using single block read
> >> mmcblk0: retrying using single block read
> >> mmcblk0: retrying using single block read
> >> mmcblk0: retrying using single block read
> >>
> >> (since this revision of the silicon doesn't support multi-block MMC reads).
> >
> > ..but this one is usually a problem muxing the MMC data lines.
> >
> > Are you sure this revision only supports one data line?
> 
> No, I think you misunderstood the issue!
> 
> The issue is that multi-block mmc reads are broken and the code falls
> back to single block reads but prints a warning each time.
> 
> Looking for a definitive source for this errata with Google I find:
> 
> "According to the TI docs, multiple block read transfer
> does not work correctly in CPU revisions 2.1 and earlier (TI advisory
> 2.1.1.128)."

OK, thanks for correcting me.
 
> So the correct fix is probably to use multi-block reads only on
> revisions post 2.1.

Or just permanently switch to single-block reads if the multi-block
reads fail?

Regards,

Tony
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