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.

force_ro

Enforce read-only access even if write protect switch is off.

SD and MMC Device Attributes

All attributes are read-only.

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

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