Getting started with FAT Filesystem on SD/MMC cards over SPI

[Sebastian Huber]

Robert S. Grimes wrote:
> Thanks Sebastian,  I'll give it a try.  Likely I won't have anything to 
> report on until next week.
> 
> One question in clarification: you said "it must be possible to drive 
> the clock with inactive chip select".  Do you mean the clock must always 
> be running, or that there needs to be a way to drive the clock sometimes 
> while the socket is _not_ selected?  Maybe it'll become obvious when I 

Some cards require in the initialization procedure that they see some 
clock cycles without an active chip select.  So the LibI2C functions 
have to satisfy this (in this sequence):

start: The driver occupies the bus.

set transfer mode: The driver sets the transfer mode.

write/read: Write/read to/from the device with INACTIVE chip select 
(drives the clock).

send address: Activates the appropriate chip select.

write/read: Write/read to/from the device ACTIVE chip select.

stop: Deactivates the corresponding chip select and releases the bus.

> delve into the code, but I was just a bit curious...
> 
> Thanks again, and say "Hello" to Thomas for me,
> -Bob
> 
> 
> Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I wrote a SD Card driver that uses the LibI2C interface.  It is already
>> included in the RTEMS CVS under the LibChip:
>>
>> c/src/libchip/i2c/spi-sd-card.h
>> c/src/libchip/i2c/spi-sd-card.c
>>
>> It works with the SPI drivers for the MPC5566EVB and MPC8313ERDB boards.
>>   I had problems to initialize some SD Cards (1 out of 10), but this is
>> maybe a problem of the SPI interface in these cards.  The initialization
>> sequence is not perfect and may need improvement.  One problem is that
>> not all documents are publicly available.
>>
>> The SD Card driver registers itself to LibBlock so you can use easily
>> imfs and dosfs.
>>
>> Example code:
>>
>> c/src/lib/libbsp/powerpc/mpc55xxevb/startup/sd-card-init.c
>>
>> The crucial point for the SPI driver is that it must be possible to
>> drive the clock with inactive chip select:
>>
>> [...]
>> /* Stop */
>> sc = sd_card_stop( e);
>> CHECK_SC( sc, "Stop");
>>
>> /* Start with inactive chip select */
>> sc = rtems_libi2c_send_start( e->minor);
>> CHECK_SC( sc, "Send start");
>>
>> /* Set transfer mode */
>> rv = rtems_libi2c_ioctl( e->minor, RTEMS_LIBI2C_IOCTL_SET_TFRMODE,
>> &e->transfer_mode);
>> CLEANUP_RVSC( rv, sc, sd_card_driver_init_cleanup, "Set transfer mode");
>>
>> /* Send idle tokens with inactive chip select */
>> rv = sd_card_query( e, e->response, SD_CARD_COMMAND_SIZE);
>> CLEANUP_RVSC( rv, sc, sd_card_driver_init_cleanup, "Inactive chip select
>> delay");
>>
>> /* Activate chip select */
>> sc = rtems_libi2c_send_addr( e->minor, 1);
>> CLEANUP_SC( sc, sd_card_driver_init_cleanup, "Send address");
>> [...]
>>
>> So you have to activate the chip select in rtems_libi2c_send_addr() and
>> not before.
>>  [...]

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