More RPI-B/SD card information [was: Re: RPi won't boot 10.2-BETA1 -- SOLVED]
Trev
freebsd-arm at sentry.org
Thu Jul 16 23:26:30 UTC 2015
Glen Barber wrote:
> I did a bit more testing, and it seems the RPI-B is *very* picky about
> what SD cards will work. Below follows results of the tests, using the
> 20150716-r285616 RPI-B image (built last night, propagating now).
>
> For completeness, I've included 'mmcinfo' output from u-boot, but what
> is really interesting is cards (7) and (8).
[...]
> 7) FAILED
> Kingston class 4 SDHC 4GB
> U-Boot> mmcinfo
> Device: bcm2835_sdhci
> Manufacturer ID: 2
> OEM: 544d
> Name: SA04G
> Tran Speed: 50000000
> Rd Block Len: 512
> SD version 2.0
> High Capacity: Yes
> Capacity: 3.6 GiB
> Bus Width: 4-bit
>
> 8) SUCCESS
> Kingston class 4 SDHC 4GB
> U-Boot> mmcinfo
> Device: bcm2835_sdhci
> Manufacturer ID: 2
> OEM: 544d
> Name: SA04G
> Tran Speed: 50000000
> Rd Block Len: 512
> SD version 2.0
> High Capacity: Yes
> Capacity: 3.6 GiB
> Bus Width: 4-bit
Maybe not so interesting if you read
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918#comment-512017 regarding
"Kingston" cards.
Of more interest would be reading the cards ID data for date, fwrev,
hwrev, manfid, name, oemid, scr and serial number.
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