Hi, On Sun, Sep 18 2011, NamJae Jeon wrote: > mmc : boot partition is set as a read-write. > > There is a case that user directly update boot partition through mmcblk0boot0,1. > However, the current boot partition is set as a read-only. > I suggest that boot partition is set as a read-write if there is no > reason that it should be read-only. There is a reason. Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt: MMC Boot Partitions =================== Read and write access is provided to the two MMC boot partitions. Due to the sensitive nature of the boot partition contents, which often store a bootloader or bootloader configuration tables crucial to booting the platform, write access is disabled by default to reduce the chance of accidental bricking. To enable write access to /dev/mmcblkXbootY, disable the forced read-only access with: echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro == - Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child -- 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
