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SD and MMC Block Device Attributes

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================================== SD and MMC Block Device Attributes

These attributes are defined for the block devices associated with the SD or MMC device.

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

All attributes are read-only.

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cid			Card Identification 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)
prv			Product Revision (from CID Register)
			(SD and MMCv4 only)
serial			Product Serial Number (from CID Register)
erase_size		Erase group size
preferred_erase_size	Preferred erase size
raw_rpmb_size_mult	RPMB partition size
rel_sectors		Reliable write sector count
ocr 			Operation Conditions Register
dsr			Driver Stage Register
cmdq_en			Command Queue enabled:

				1 => enabled, 0 => not enabled
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Note on Erase Size and Preferred Erase Size:

"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.

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.

"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.

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.

For SD, "preferred_erase_size" is the allocation unit
size specified by the card.

"preferred_erase_size" is in bytes.

Note on raw_rpmb_size_mult:

"raw_rpmb_size_mult" is a multiple of 128kB block.

RPMB size in byte is calculated by using the following equation:

	RPMB partition size = 128kB x raw_rpmb_size_mult