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authorDoug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>2015-05-12 14:46:11 -0700
committerUlf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>2015-06-01 09:07:07 +0200
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mmc: core: Increase delay for voltage to stabilize from 3.3V to 1.8V
Since the regulator used for the SDMMC IO voltage is not expected to draw a lot of current, most systems will probably use an inexpensive LDO for it. LDO regulators apparently have the feature that they don't actively drive the voltage down--they wait for other components in the system to drag the voltage down. Thus they will transition faster under heavy loads and slower under light loads. During an SDMMC voltage change from 3.3V to 1.8V, we are almost certainly under a light load. To be specific: * The regulator is hooked through pulls to CMD0-3 and DAT. Probably the CMD pulls are something like 47K and the DAT is something like 10K. * The card is supposed to be driving DAT0-3 low during voltage change which will draw _some_ current, but not a lot. * The regulator is also provided to the SDMMC host controller, but the SDMMC host controller is in open drain mode during the voltage change and so shouldn't be drawing much current. In order to keep the SDMMC host working properly (or for noise reasons), there might also be a capacitor attached to the SDMMC IO regulator. This also will have the effect of slowing down transitions of the regulator, especially under light loads. From experimental evidence, we've seen the voltage change fail if the card doesn't detect that the voltage fell to less than about 2.3V when we turn on the clock. On one device (that admittedly had a 47K CMD pullup instead of a 10K CMD pullup) we saw that the voltage was just about 2.3V after 5ms and thus the voltage change would sometimes fail. Doubling the delay gave margin and made the voltage change work 100% of the time, despite the slightly weaker CMD pull. At the moment submitting this as an RFC patch since my problem _could_ be fixed by increasing the pull strength (or using a smaller capacitor). However being a little bit more lenient to strange hardware could also be a good thing. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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