I'm trying to add an SD card over SPI (ecspi2) on the iMX7 Solo. I would use an SDIO port but its not an option on my hardware (custom board). I'm using Yocto and Linux 4.1.
I have added the following to my .dts, but I don't see any new block device show up in lsblk or any new partition in /proc/partitions, or any prints related to this show up in /var/log/messages.
&ecspi2 {
status = "okay";
sdcard: mmc-slot@0 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <1>;
compatible = "mmc-spi-slot";
reg = <0>;
spi-max-frequency = <5000000>;
voltage-ranges = <3200 3400>;
disable-wp;
disable-cd;
};
};
pinctrl_ecspi2: ecspi2grp {
fsl,pins = <
MX7D_PAD_ECSPI2_MISO__ECSPI2_MISO 0x00000014
MX7D_PAD_ECSPI2_MOSI__ECSPI2_MOSI 0x00000014
MX7D_PAD_ECSPI2_SCLK__ECSPI2_SCLK 0x00000014
MX7D_PAD_ECSPI2_SS0__ECSPI2_SS0 0x00000014
>;
};
My theory now is that the MMC_SPI kernel driver (which has "mmc-spi-slot" as the compatible string) is not being compiled into my kernel. I have found other posts where people used this driver for this purpose (sd card over spi on iMX6 was the closest case I could find) :
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
TargetMachine$ cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin | grep mmc
kernel/drivers/mmc/card/mmc_block.ko
kernel/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_core.ko
kernel/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.ko
kernel/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pltfm.ko
kernel/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.ko
TargetMachine$ cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin | grep spi
kernel/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-spi.ko
kernel/drivers/mfd/mc13xxx-spi.ko
kernel/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.ko
kernel/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.ko
kernel/drivers/spi/spi-bitbang.ko
kernel/drivers/spi/spi-gpio.ko
kernel/drivers/spi/spi-imx.ko
I searched around the kernel menuconfig UI for relevant kernel components to add. I already had the following config entries set:
HostMachine$ cat .config | grep MMC
# Supported MMC/SDIO adapters
CONFIG_MMC=y
# CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_CLKGATE is not set
# MMC/SD/SDIO Card Drivers
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_MINORS=8
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_BOUNCE=y
# CONFIG_MMC_TEST is not set
# MMC/SD/SDIO Host Controller Drivers
CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI=y
CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_IO_ACCESSORS=y
CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_PLTFM=y
# CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_OF_ARASAN is not set
CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_ESDHC_IMX=y
# CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_F_SDH30 is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_MXC is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_DW is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_VUB300 is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_USHC is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_USDHI6ROL0 is not set
When I search for "MMC" in the menuconfig UI, I see an additional entry that is not in my .config file:
Symbol: MMC_SPI [=n]
Type : tristate
Prompt: MMC/SD/SDIO over SPI
Location:
-> Device Drivers
(1) -> MMC/SD/SDIO card support (MMC [=y])
Depends on: MMC [=y] && SPI_MASTER [=y] && !HIGHMEM [=y] && HAS_DMA [=y]
Defined at drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig:472
Selects: CRC7 [=m] && CRC_ITU_T [=m]
However, I dont see any way in the menu to enable the MMC_SPI symbol, or to get CONFIG_MMC_SPI to showup in my .config file.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig
Can you help me get past this point? Do you agree that I need to get the mmc_spi driver compiled in? If so, how can I get it to compile in? What else might be the problem and how do I troubleshoot ?
