Patch to make BBB properly boot from eMMC every time

Winston Smith smith.winston.101 at gmail.com
Tue May 13 14:17:43 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Confused about the cause of the results, yes.  I think the printf I had
> you add to help me figure out the problem just changed the timing of the
> retry to make it work on the second try, but I have no idea why.
>
> Does anybody else with a BBB see the device randomly boot up as 1 or 4
> or 8 bits, changing from one boot to the next?  The bits are reported in
> the mmcsd0 line:
>
> mmcsd0: 8GB <SDHC SA08G 0.4 SN 2630755555 MFG 10/2009 by 2 TM> at mmc0
> 50.0MHz/4bit/65535-block
>
> That's from a wandboard, but a BBB eMMC should always be 8 bits.

BBB rev A6A shows 8-bits (for the eMMC):

mmcsd1: 2GB <MMC MMC02G 3.10 SN 244024444 MFG 08/1997 by 254 0x004e>
at mmc1 48.0MHz/8bit/65535-block


But shows 4-bits for the SD card:

mmcsd0: 4GB <SDHC SA04G 0.4 SN 2617266666 MFG 05/2010 by 2 TM> at mmc0
48.0MHz/4bit/65535-block


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