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[mmc: sdhci-brcmstb] Verify DDR200 bus mode #7103

@mirh

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@mirh

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So.. RPi5 finally supports the full UHS-I, though much as anywhere else it is plateauing at about 90MB/s (SDR104).
This isn't that bad and I can see why it's good enough not to need wasting space for other pcb lines, but in the years since the standard was defined cheats have been designed to keep it cheap yet go faster.

Sandisk and others (with samsung actually being the recommended one at least to prototype) have made these sdcards with a firmware that can run at emmc frequencies, and at least on the tegra X1 controller where it has been re-implemented you can get +50% improvements easy.

CTCaer/switch-l4t-kernel-4.9@c0f1c91
CTCaer/switch-l4t-kernel-4.9@92edf31
Architectural details specific to that are covered here, including a creative workaround for apparent hardware(?) constraints which forced them to go through manual tuning of the normal DDR50 mode.
BCM2712 is certainly more modern given it could even theoretically support sdexpress, but go figure if this means "better potential" (like perhaps even DDR225) or worse.

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Benchmark a micro sd card.

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Raspberry Pi 5

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