Came across this thread in my attempts to get u-boot booting off a sdcard 
on a A31 based tablet.

Would there have been in more work on this since April? 

Maks.

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:31:44 UTC+11, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:55:44PM +0200, Olliver Schinagl wrote: 
> > On 03/31/2014 08:27 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: 
> > >Hi Hans, 
> > > 
> > >On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Hans de Goede <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > >>Hi, 
> > >> 
> > >>After wens pointed me to: 
> > >>
> http://git.rhombus-tech.net/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/cpu/armv7/sunxi/dram_sun6i.c;h=9275ca21ac99592c7d520a41c0914b359c27b913;hb=refs/heads/lichee/jb-4.2.2-a31
>  
> > >> 
> > >>I've tried to get a full SPL going on sun6i. No luck sofar, 
> > >>dropping in dram_sun6i.[c,h] +pll5 config seems to get the dram 
> > >>going, at least get_ram_size() likes it. But I cannot get the 
> > >>mmc to work in the SPL. I've narrowed this down to 2  problems, 
> > >>which I believe are related: 
> > >> 
> > >>1) The mmc controller will simply not work with pll6 as source, 
> > >>after adding a test for the pll6 lock bit I believe this is caused 
> > >>by pll6 never locking. 
> > >> 
> > >>2) When switching the mmc controller clocksource to OSC24M, then 
> > >>it does work, but gets stuck reading the first sector from the card. 
> > >>I believe this happens because the card is only being supplied 3.0V' 
> > >>rather then 3.3V. 
> > >> 
> > >>Note that the same code works fine in the no SPL u-boot when loaded 
> > >>through boot0 + boot1. 
> > >> 
> > >>Likely wrong power supply voltages are the culprit in both cases 
> > >>(the A31 also has a vdd-pll power pin. 
> > >> 
> > >>So it looks like the next step is to first get the pmic going in 
> > >>u-boot (which will be useful even if booted through boot0 + 1, to 
> > >>enable the nic-phy if nothing else). 
> > > 
> > >The A23 lichee u-boot has drivers for P2WI (used in sun6i) and RSB 
> > >(reduced serial bus, used on A23): 
> > Are they not the same? I haven't looked I admit, I just figured they 
> > changed the name a little to make it sound distinctive. 
>
> We don't have much details, but the bus itself looks different, since 
> it supports many devices, which is impossible with the p2wi. 
>   
> > Are they similar at all? If so, I guess that the i2c vs p2wi 
> > discussion held a few days ago is moot then :) 
>
> Why so? 
>
> -- 
> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons 
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering 
> http://free-electrons.com 
>

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