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Add Documentation for MMC boot_enable attribute

PATCH In review Neil Armstrong 2 participants 2 messages Apr 19, 2013 – Apr 21, 2013

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PATCH 3/3 Add Documentation for MMC boot_enable attribute

Add documentation on the enable_boot sysfs attribute.

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@@ -38,3 +38,9 @@ feature has been disabled on the card, the file will

be read-only.
The boot partitions can also be locked permanently, but this feature is not accessible through sysfs in order to avoid accidental or malicious bricking.
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+A special attribute named boot_enable is available to configure the +selected partition for the eMMC 4.3+ boot operation mode. +When selected between the two factory boot partitions and the main +user partition, at boot time a special sequence enables makes the +eMMC device to output the content of the selected partition.

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Quoted 19 lines · Neil Armstrong

Add documentation on the enable_boot sysfs attribute.

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 Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt +0 -0
index f08d078..78228de 100644
@@ -38,3 +38,9 @@ feature has been disabled on the card, the file will

be read-only.
The boot partitions can also be locked permanently, but this feature
is
not accessible through sysfs in order to avoid accidental or
malicious
bricking.

Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt

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+A special attribute named boot_enable is available to configure the
+selected partition for the eMMC 4.3+ boot operation mode.

So "In eMMC version 4.3 or later, the boot_enable attribute selects the partition to boot from."

Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt

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Documentation/mmc/mmc-dev-parts.txt +3 -0
+When selected between the two factory boot partitions and the main
+user partition, at boot time a special sequence enables makes the
+eMMC device to output the content of the selected partition.

enables makes?

Does this sentence actually add any information to the previous sentence? (Maybe I'm not reading it right, I'm not entirely sure what "selected between" or "special sequence" are referring to here...)

Rob