1 SD and MMC Device Partitions
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4 Device partitions are additional logical block devices present on the
7 As of this writing, MMC boot partitions as supported and exposed as
8 /dev/mmcblkXboot0 and /dev/mmcblkXboot1, where X is the index of the
14 Read and write access is provided to the two MMC boot partitions. Due to
15 the sensitive nature of the boot partition contents, which often store
16 a bootloader or bootloader configuration tables crucial to booting the
17 platform, write access is disabled by default to reduce the chance of
20 To enable write access to /dev/mmcblkXbootY, disable the forced read-only
23 echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro
25 To re-enable read-only access:
27 echo 1 > /sys/block/mmcblkXbootY/force_ro