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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c index c712b7deb3a9..82a97866e0cf 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/alcor.c @@ -1044,14 +1044,27 @@ static void alcor_init_mmc(struct alcor_sdmmc_host *host) mmc->caps2 = MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO; mmc->ops = &alcor_sdc_ops; - /* Hardware cannot do scatter lists */ + /* The hardware does DMA data transfer of 4096 bytes to/from a single + * buffer address. Scatterlists are not supported, but upon DMA + * completion (signalled via IRQ), the original vendor driver does + * then immediately set up another DMA transfer of the next 4096 + * bytes. + * + * This means that we need to handle the I/O in 4096 byte chunks. + * Lacking a way to limit the sglist entries to 4096 bytes, we instead + * impose that only one segment is provided, with maximum size 4096, + * which also happens to be the minimum size. This means that the + * single-entry sglist handled by this driver can be handed directly + * to the hardware, nice and simple. + * + * Unfortunately though, that means we only do 4096 bytes I/O per + * MMC command. A future improvement would be to make the driver + * accept sg lists and entries of any size, and simply iterate + * through them 4096 bytes at a time. + */ mmc->max_segs = AU6601_MAX_DMA_SEGMENTS; mmc->max_seg_size = AU6601_MAX_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE; - - mmc->max_blk_size = mmc->max_seg_size; - mmc->max_blk_count = mmc->max_segs; - - mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size * mmc->max_segs; + mmc->max_req_size = mmc->max_seg_size; } static int alcor_pci_sdmmc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) |