Thread: [Solved] /dev/mmcblk* missing when in /sbin/preinit?
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2012-12-14 , 05:54
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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
(even though the kernel appears to detect the external MMC first and then the internal one, so udev effectively swaps the slot numbers).
Physically, the SD card is wired to the first MMC interface on the OMAP.

I speculate this was to aid during testing/development of the N900, as IIRC the only way you're feeding the OMAP ROM with an easily replacable (NAND doesn't count) second stage bootloader was by writing it to the first MMC device.
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