[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/18] Support for eMMC partitioning and related fixes

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Hi Diego,

> On Dec 4, 2014, at 19:01 , Diego Santa Cruz <Diego.SantaCruz at spinetix.com> wrote:
> 
> I have the need to hardware partition eMMC devices from U-Boot along
> with setting enhanced and reliable write attributes.
> 
> This series of patches adds this support to U-Boot via a new mmc
> API, a few new members of struct mmc and a new mmc sub-command. It
> also features several fixes to the eMMC hardware partition support. I
> have tested this with Micron eMMC 4.41 parts and it is working as
> expected.
> 
> This version updates the original patch series by reorganizing patches
> 14, 15 and 16 to make them cleaner, as requested by Pantelis. There
> are no functional changes.
> 
> The patch series is against u-boot.git master of a few minutes ago.
> 
> Diego Santa Cruz (18):
>  mmc: show hardware partition sizes in mmcinfo output
>  mmc: extend mmcinfo to show enhanced partition attribute
>  mmc: make eMMC general purpose partition numbering match spec
>  mmc: skip mmcinfo partition info processing for eMMC < 4.41
>  mmc: incomplete test to switch to high-capacity group size
>    definitions
>  mmc: computation of eMMC GP partition size was missing 512 KiB factor
>  mmc: read the size of eMMC enhanced user data area
>  mmc: display size and start of eMMC enhanced user data area in
>    mmcinfo
>  mmc: fix erase_grp_size computation with high-capacity size
>    definition
>  mmc: read the high capacity WP group size for eMMC
>  mmc: show the erase group size and HC WP group size in mmcinfo output
>  mmc: eMMC partitioning data is not effective till partitioning
>    completed
>  mmc: the ext_csd data may be used during init even if reading failed
>  mmc: add API to do eMMC hardware partitioning
>  mmc: add mmc hwpartition sub-command to do eMMC hardware partitioning
>  mmc: extend the mmc hardware partitioning API with write reliability
>  mmc: extend the mmc hwpartition sub-command to change write
>    reliability
>  mmc: extend mmcinfo output to show partition write reliability
>    settings
> 
> common/cmd_mmc.c  |  207 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/mmc/mmc.c |  283 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> include/mmc.h     |   47 +++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

I really really wanted to take this in, but there’s no Signed-off-by: tag on any of
the patches.

I’m going to issue an mmc pull request right now, and I’d appreciate if you resubmit
with  the Signed-off-by: tags. There’s going to be few reject due to the DDR patches
getting in.

Regards

— Pantelis