Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add Radxa ROCK 3C

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

Hello Jonas,

On 2024-05-02 14:17, Jonas Karlman wrote:
> On 2024-05-02 03:28, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2024-04-30 07:42, Folker Schwesinger wrote:
>>> On Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 2:36 PM CEST, Chukun Pan wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> +&sdhci {
>>>> +	bus-width = <8>;
>>>> +	max-frequency = <200000000>;
>>>> +	mmc-hs200-1_8v;
>>> 
>>> Out of curiosity, does this board also support HS400? From a very 
>>> brief
>>> look this board seems quite similar to Rock 4 series boards, that do
>>> support HS400.
>> 
>> In a word, no, unfortunately.  In more detail, the Rockchip RK3566
>> and RK3568 SoCs support the eMMC modes up to and including HS200, but
>> not the HS400 mode.
> 
> The datasheet for RK3568 only mention HS200 mode, however, HS400 mode 
> is
> working in U-Boot after adjusting tap number for transmit clock [1].
> Linux may need similar adjustment to make HS400 mode work on RK3568.
> 
> RK3566 that this board use only support HS200, as specified in 
> datasheet.

Oh, that's very interesting, thanks for pointing it out!

What makes me a bit worried about enabling the undocumented HS400 mode
on the RK3568 is that neither the RK3568 Hardware Design Guide (HDG),
version 1.2, [2] mentions HS400 support.  I mean, the RK3568 datasheet
may be wrong about not mentioning HS400, but what are the chances for
the RK3568 HDG to also be wrong there?

In other words, maybe there are some hard-to-trigger hardware issues
in the RK3568 that made the HS400 mode, although actually present in
hardware, officially unsupported for the RK3568?  Maybe there's even
some non-public errata from Rockchip, who knows.

[1] 
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/5c053f3adc69eaf83645b5d44c6adbb2d49a3fa7
[2] https://dl.xkwy2018.com/downloads/RK3568/RK356X/Hardware/