Some eMMC chips have a boot partition that is meant to be used to load in low level boot code. This partition is available when the chip is powered up. Normally the boot loader would disable access to the partition once boot code was loaded in before passing control to linux. if booting occurs from another device (not the eMMC chip) the partition will not be disabled by the boot loader and control will be passed to linux. This will cause linux to not recognize user partitions on the chip unless access to the boot partition is deactivated. See JEDEC Standard 84-A44 (eMMC 4.4 spec) -- Page 139 signed off by: Philip Rakity <prakity@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff -ru linux-2.6.32.8/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c linux-2.6.32.8 copy/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c --- linux-2.6.32.8/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c 2010-02-09 04:57:19.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.32.8 copy/drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c 2010-03-12 20:56:16.000000000 -0800 @@ -430,6 +432,13 @@ } /* + * ensure eMMC private booting PARTITION is not enabled + * see JEDEC Standard No. 84-A44 - Page 139 + */ + mmc_switch(card, EXT_CSD_CMD_SET_NORMAL, + EXT_CSD_BOOT_CONFIG, 0x0); + + /* * Compute bus speed. */ max_dtr = (unsigned int)-1; diff -ru linux-2.6.32.8/include/linux/mmc/mmc.h linux-2.6.32.8 copy/include/linux/mmc/mmc.h --- linux-2.6.32.8/include/linux/mmc/mmc.h 2010-02-09 04:57:19.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.32.8 copy/include/linux/mmc/mmc.h 2010-03-12 20:53:48.000000000 -0800 @@ -251,6 +252,7 @@ * EXT_CSD fields */ +#define EXT_CSD_BOOT_CONFIG 179 /* R/W */ #define EXT_CSD_BUS_WIDTH 183 /* R/W */ #define EXT_CSD_HS_TIMING 185 /* R/W */ #define EXT_CSD_CARD_TYPE 196 /* RO */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
