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2 SD and MMC Device Partitions
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5 Device partitions are additional logical block devices present on the
8 As of this writing, MMC boot partitions as supported and exposed as
9 /dev/mmcblkXboot0 and /dev/mmcblkXboot1, where X is the index of the
15 Read and write access is provided to the two MMC boot partitions. Due to
16 the sensitive nature of the boot partition contents, which often store
17 a bootloader or bootloader configuration tables crucial to booting the
18 platform, write access is disabled by default to reduce the chance of
21 To enable write access to /dev/mmcblkXbootY, disable the forced read-only
24 echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro
26 To re-enable read-only access::
28 echo 1 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro
30 The boot partitions can also be locked read only until the next power on,
33 echo 1 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/ro_lock_until_next_power_on
35 This is a feature of the card and not of the kernel. If the card does
36 not support boot partition locking, the file will not exist. If the
37 feature has been disabled on the card, the file will be read-only.
39 The boot partitions can also be locked permanently, but this feature is
40 not accessible through sysfs in order to avoid accidental or malicious