Re: eMMC support

[Cédric Le Goater]

Hello Sai Pavan,

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>>> The patchset is in the aspeed-6.0 branch :
>>>
>>>     df91d012672c Cédric Le Goater - hw/arm/aspeed: Load eMMC first boot
>>>                                     area as a boot rom
>>>     27b75a7ad322 Cédric Le Goater - hw/arm/aspeed: Add eMMC property
>>>     2836cf5a15a1 Joel Stanley - hw/arm/aspeed: Set boot device to emmc
>
> [Sai Pavan Boddu] I see you guys have implemented the boot area access here,

The boot partition modeling fits our needs to boot the Aspeed machine 
but this is very custom. 

> I was assuming, your use-case just need to access data from boot partitions.
> We are not implementing eMMC boot operations or Alternative bootmode right ?

Joel could say more about it ? 

> And also is it good to calculate the address offset once when partition 
> access bits are set, rather than doing it for every read/write ?

Yes and no. It would add state to the sd object.

Thanks,

C.