On 7/19/2018 6:56 PM, Laurence Perkins (OE) wrote:
> I'm running parted 3.2, which appears to be the latest available
> release on the gnu.org ftp site, as well as in my distribution
> (Gentoo). However it's also older than that commit, so it probably
> does not have it.
Yea, we really need to
On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 15:24 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE)
> wrote:
> > Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read-
> > write.
> > Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14
> > kernel,
> > wa
On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 15:24 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE)
> wrote:
> > Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read-
> > write.
> > Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14
> > kernel,
> > wa
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:27:30PM +, Laurence Perkins (OE) wrote:
> Calling parted -l however attempts to open these devices read-write.
> Which fails and generates a dmesg entry that, prior to the 4.14 kernel,
> was difficult to distinguish from the messages generated by a failing
> eMMC dev
A few of the cheaper devices I work with have the system firmware, the
RPMB, and the primary block device all backed by the same onboard eMMC
flash chip. The special ones show up as /dev/mmcblk1boot0 and
/dev/mmcblk1rpmb respectively.
The kernel drivers for the eMMC device automatically detect th