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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:51:47 +0900
From:      "Daisuke Aoyama" <aoyama@peach.ne.jp>
To:        <Ralf.Wenk@hs-karlsruhe.de>, <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 512MB (with U-Boot + ubldr)
Message-ID:  <B3D30A45699E443399D7CB112082356B@ad.peach.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <E1TfWh4-00BZ82-Is@smtp.hs-karlsruhe.de>
References:  <3988C1622A974F19A9D3888F0334FF10@ad.peach.ne.jp> <50B8058C.9030909@bluezbox.com> <E1TfWh4-00BZ82-Is@smtp.hs-karlsruhe.de>

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>>> BTW, SDHCI is not yet stable?
>>
>> There is one issue with setting SDHCI clock. I'll commit fix later today.
>
>
> I like to share some information about the SD card reading speed.
>
> While exchanging the old boot sequence with then new one I once booted
> with the new boot sequence but without an /boot/loader.rc file.
>
> The reading speed achieved with
> dd if=/dev/mmcsd0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=100
> from the SD card was 10 Mbyte/sec.
>
> After creating the file with "echo 'fdt addr 0x100' > /boot/loader.rc"
> and rebooting the reading speed achieved from the SD card was down to
> 2.8 Mbyte/sec.
>
> Although the SDHCI frequency was shown on the second boot as double high 
> as
> on the first (100MHz versus 50MHz) the reading speed was much lower.
> I think the cause was the mmcsd bus bit width which was reported as 4 at
> the first and as 1 at the second boot.

At this time, it must be 50. if use 100MHz, some cards cant be used anymore.
Howerver, probably 4bit transfer is OK.

-- 
Daisuke Aoyama
 




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