> Wouldn't the ultimate solution be to simply use FIQs to service the
> MMC FIFO?

The ultimate solution is to super-size FIFO ;-) It's not impossible (as the 
motherboard peripherals live in a FPGA), but according to our board people may 
be tricky due to the MMCI design (it's just ancient, that's all).

Now, the first thing I did was bumping the MMCI interrupts priorities, then I 
was considering use of FIQ. But - as Russell pointed out - it's simply not so 
simple...

> the secure world could provide some kind of 
> software based DMA engine facility to the non-secure world for this FIFO 
> servicing purpose.

It's very, very unrealistic to expect any secure stack implementation (say, 
Visa or MasterCard authorization software) to provide such feature for anyone.

So - we'll try to enlarge FIFO. For the moment - playing with interrupts 
affinity seem to be a viable workaround.

Cheers!

Paweł




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