Since eMMC 4.3 a special boot mode operation was introduced to retrieve data from the eMMC device with a very simple procedure. Since the Linux kernel exports these device boot partitions, it may be useful to select the boot partition from the user space. The patch has been tested on a Toshiba eMMC conforming with eMMC 4.5 specifications. Neil Armstrong (3): Add BOOT_PARTITION_ENABLE definition to MMC EXT_CSD PART_CONFIG Add boot_enable sysfs attribute to select MMC boot operation partition Add Documentation for MMC boot_enable attribute Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt | 6 +++ drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/mmc/mmc.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- 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