| SD and MMC Block Device Attributes |
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| These attributes are defined for the block devices associated with the |
| SD or MMC device. |
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| The following attributes are read/write. |
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| force_ro Enforce read-only access even if write protect switch is off. |
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| SD and MMC Device Attributes |
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| All attributes are read-only. |
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| cid Card Identifaction Register |
| csd Card Specific Data Register |
| scr SD Card Configuration Register (SD only) |
| date Manufacturing Date (from CID Register) |
| fwrev Firmware/Product Revision (from CID Register) (SD and MMCv1 only) |
| hwrev Hardware/Product Revision (from CID Register) (SD and MMCv1 only) |
| manfid Manufacturer ID (from CID Register) |
| name Product Name (from CID Register) |
| oemid OEM/Application ID (from CID Register) |
| serial Product Serial Number (from CID Register) |
| erase_size Erase group size |
| preferred_erase_size Preferred erase size |
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| Note on Erase Size and Preferred Erase Size: |
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| "erase_size" is the minimum size, in bytes, of an erase |
| operation. For MMC, "erase_size" is the erase group size |
| reported by the card. Note that "erase_size" does not apply |
| to trim or secure trim operations where the minimum size is |
| always one 512 byte sector. For SD, "erase_size" is 512 |
| if the card is block-addressed, 0 otherwise. |
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| SD/MMC cards can erase an arbitrarily large area up to and |
| including the whole card. When erasing a large area it may |
| be desirable to do it in smaller chunks for three reasons: |
| 1. A single erase command will make all other I/O on |
| the card wait. This is not a problem if the whole card |
| is being erased, but erasing one partition will make |
| I/O for another partition on the same card wait for the |
| duration of the erase - which could be a several |
| minutes. |
| 2. To be able to inform the user of erase progress. |
| 3. The erase timeout becomes too large to be very |
| useful. Because the erase timeout contains a margin |
| which is multiplied by the size of the erase area, |
| the value can end up being several minutes for large |
| areas. |
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| "erase_size" is not the most efficient unit to erase |
| (especially for SD where it is just one sector), |
| hence "preferred_erase_size" provides a good chunk |
| size for erasing large areas. |
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| For MMC, "preferred_erase_size" is the high-capacity |
| erase size if a card specifies one, otherwise it is |
| based on the capacity of the card. |
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| For SD, "preferred_erase_size" is the allocation unit |
| size specified by the card. |
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| "preferred_erase_size" is in bytes. |
