| Multimedia Card Interface (MCI) driver | ||
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 | Chapter 254. Atmel AT91RM9200 Processor Support |  |
Name
Multimedia Card Interface (MCI) driver — Using MMC/SD cards with block drivers and filesystems
Overview
The MultiMedia Card Interface (MCI) driver in the AT91RM9200 processor HAL allows use of MultiMedia Cards (MMC cards) and Secure Digital (SD) flash storage cards within eCos, exported as block devices. This makes them suitable for use as the underlying devices for filesystems such as FAT.
Configuration
This driver provides the necessary support for the generic MMC/SD bus layer
within the CYGPKG_DEVS_DISK_MMC package to export a disk
block device. The disk block device is only available if the generic disk I/O
layer found in the package CYGPKG_IO_DISK is included in
the configuration.
The block device may then be used as the device layer for a filesystem such
as FAT. Example devices are "/dev/mmc0/1" to refer to
the first partition on the card, or "/dev/mmc0/0" to
address the whole device including potentially the partition table at the
start.
The driver may be forcibly disabled within this processor HAL package with
the configuration option CYGPKG_HAL_ARM_ARM9_AT91RM9200_MCI.
If the driver is enabled, there are only two AT91RM9200 specific options:
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CYGIMP_HAL_ARM_ARM9_AT91RM9200_MCI_INTMODE - This indicates that the driver should operate in interrupt-driven mode if possible. This is enabled by default if the eCos kernel is enabled. Note though that if the driver finds that global interrupts are off when running, then it will fall back to polled mode even if this option is enabled. This allows for use of the MCI driver in an initialisation context.
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CYGNUM_HAL_ARM_ARM9_AT91RM9200_MCI_POWERSAVE_DIVIDER - The AT91RM9200 MCI peripheral allows the MCI clock to be divided down if told to enter power saving mode. This option specifies the divider to use. The driver itself does not implement any power saving - it is up to the application to enable power saving in the MCI control register if it is required.
Usage notes
MMC/SD cards may only be used in a MMC/SD card slot, and not a dataflash
slot. The driver will detect the appropriate card sizes. Hotswapping
of cards is supported by the driver, and in the case of eCosPro,
the FAT filesystem. Although any cards removed before explicit unmounting
or a sync() call to flush filesystem buffers will
likely result in a corrupted filesystem on the removed card.
The MMC/SD bus layer will parse partition tables, although it can be configured to allow handling of cards with no partition table.
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| 2024-12-10 | eCosPro Non-Commercial Public License |