[PATCH v4 0/2] mmc: sdhci-of-dwcmshc: Add HPE GSC eMMC support

From: nick . hawkins

Date: Mon Mar 16 2026 - 11:06:36 EST


From: Nick Hawkins <nick.hawkins@xxxxxxx>

The HPE GSC is an ARM64 (Cortex-A53) BMC SoC used on HPE ProLiant
servers. Its eMMC controller is based on the DesignWare Cores MSHC IP
(snps,dwcmshc) but requires a small set of platform-specific quirks
that cannot be expressed through the existing generic dwcmshc code
paths.

This series adds support for the 'hpe,gsc-dwcmshc' compatible:

Patch 1 extends the snps,dwcmshc-sdhci.yaml binding to document the
new compatible and the mandatory 'hpe,gxp-sysreg' syscon phandle
(with register offset argument) for MSHCCS register access. The HPE
GSC exposes only a single 'core' clock, so the clocks/clock-names
properties are constrained to a single item for this compatible.

Patch 2 adds the HPE-specific driver code in sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c:

* dwcmshc_hpe_set_clock(): SDHCI_CLOCK_CONTROL.freq_sel is wired to
a clock mux on the GSC SoC, not a divider. When running at
200 MHz (HS200) freq_sel must be forced to 1 to select the correct
high-frequency source.

* dwcmshc_hpe_vendor_specific(): disables the command-conflict check
and programs ATCTRL using existing AT_CTRL_* macros for reliable
HS200 signal integrity on the GSC board topology.

* dwcmshc_hpe_set_emmc(): helper that unconditionally sets
DWCMSHC_CARD_IS_EMMC. Called from both the reset and
UHS-signaling paths.

* dwcmshc_hpe_reset(): calls dwcmshc_reset(), re-applies vendor
config, and calls dwcmshc_hpe_set_emmc(). The controller clears
this bit on every reset; leaving it clear causes card-detect
misidentification on the eMMC-only slot.

* dwcmshc_hpe_set_uhs_signaling(): wraps dwcmshc_set_uhs_signaling()
and calls dwcmshc_hpe_set_emmc() for all timing modes.

* dwcmshc_hpe_gsc_init(): obtains the SoC register block and MSHCCS
offset via the 'hpe,gxp-sysreg' syscon phandle argument and sets
SCGSyncDis (BIT(18)) in MSHCCS to allow the HS200 RX delay lines
to settle while the card clock is stopped. Enables SDHCI v4 mode.

* sdhci_dwcmshc_hpe_gsc_pdata sets SDHCI_QUIRK_CAP_CLOCK_BASE_BROKEN
(base clock not in capabilities) and SDHCI_QUIRK2_PRESET_VALUE_BROKEN
(preset-value registers not populated in GSC ROM).

All new symbols are exclusively selected by the 'hpe,gsc-dwcmshc' OF
match entry. No existing platform (Rockchip, T-Head, sg2042, Sophgo,
etc.) has any code path change.

Note: the DTS node for 'hpe,gsc-dwcmshc' will be submitted separately
as part of the HPE GSC base platform series (arch/arm64/boot/dts/hpe/).

Changes since v3:
- dt-binding: Changed 'hpe,gxp-sysreg' from a bare phandle to a
phandle-array with register offset argument, as suggested by
Krzysztof Kozlowski.
- dt-binding: Added else clause to disallow 'hpe,gxp-sysreg' for
non-HPE compatibles, as suggested by Krzysztof Kozlowski.
- dt-binding: Dropped the third example node; two are sufficient,
as noted by Krzysztof Kozlowski.
- Driver: Fixed multi-line comment to use the standard block comment
style used in this file (opening '/*' on its own line), as noted
by Adrian Hunter.
- Driver: Added DWCMSHC_HOST_CTRL3_CMD_CONFLICT define for the
previously bare BIT(0), as suggested by Adrian Hunter.
- Driver: Extracted the CARD_IS_EMMC read-modify-write into a
dwcmshc_hpe_set_emmc() helper, called from both
dwcmshc_hpe_reset() and dwcmshc_hpe_set_uhs_signaling(), as
suggested by Adrian Hunter.
- Driver: Fixed regmap_update_bits() argument alignment, as noted
by Adrian Hunter.
- Driver: Moved HPE_GSC_MSHCCS_SCGSYNCDIS macro to the top-level
defines section, as suggested by Shawn Lin.
- Driver: Switched from syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle() with
hardcoded offset to syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle_args() to
read the MSHCCS offset from the DT phandle argument.

Changes since v2:
- Replaced raw ATCTRL magic value 0x021f0005 with existing AT_CTRL_*
macros and FIELD_PREP(), as suggested by Shawn Lin.
- Refactored dwcmshc_hpe_set_uhs_signaling() to wrap
dwcmshc_set_uhs_signaling() instead of duplicating the body,
as suggested by Shawn Lin.
- Dropped redundant 'maxItems: 1' from clocks and clock-names in the
dt-binding conditional block; the items list already implies the
count (reported by dt-review-ci / dtschema).

Changes since v1:
- Replaced the second reg entry for MSHCCS with an 'hpe,gxp-sysreg'
syscon phandle + regmap access, as suggested by Conor Dooley.
- Driver now uses syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle() and
regmap_update_bits() instead of devm_platform_ioremap_resource().

Nick Hawkins (2):
dt-bindings: mmc: snps,dwcmshc-sdhci: add HPE GSC dwcmshc compatible
mmc: sdhci-of-dwcmshc: Add HPE GSC eMMC support

.../bindings/mmc/snps,dwcmshc-sdhci.yaml | 32 ++++
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 179 insertions(+)

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