Re: [U-Boot] OT: SD/MMC-over-SPI and speed in linux

2010-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: > > I can't say much about actual transfer rates. But i noticed a real slowdown > when the filesystem buffer is about to be flushed. > We are using a COldfire 5484 and AFAIK there is no DMA for SPI, at least we > don't use it.

Re: [U-Boot] OT: SD/MMC-over-SPI and speed in linux

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Stein
Am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010 15:59:44 schrieb Wolfgang Wegner: > Hi Alexander, > > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:33:53PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: > [...] > > > IIRC 400kBytes/second is the initial speed for SD cards on SPI. The card > > itself responds which max speed it can handle. Which could b

Re: [U-Boot] OT: SD/MMC-over-SPI and speed in linux

2010-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi Alexander, On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:33:53PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: [...] > IIRC 400kBytes/second is the initial speed for SD cards on SPI. The card > itself responds which max speed it can handle. Which could be adjusted later > (up to 25MHz or even more). the initial speed is 400 k

Re: [U-Boot] OT: SD/MMC-over-SPI and speed in linux

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Stein
Hello Wolfgang, Am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010 15:13:14 schrieb Wolfgang Wegner: > In U-Boot, I can get read speeds with fatload of around 400 kBytes/second, > which seems reasonable as the card can handle 25 MHz SPI speed. (And, it > would be sufficient for our application.) IIRC 400kBytes/second is

[U-Boot] OT: SD/MMC-over-SPI and speed in linux

2010-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi all, sorry for the off-topic question, but I seemingly did not yet find the right search string and was hoping to find experienced embedded people here to point me in the right direction. I have connected a SD card to a coldfire MCF54455 via SPI, accessible from both U-Boot and linux. The kern