ICS eMMC image - SD card mount fails

Sunil, what is you recommended importance level of this bug and should it be mapped to the 2012.04 release?

lets have it for 12.05. But definitely its very important to have this in place. I could see that we Mridul couldnt perform some of the BT/WLAN functionality test because of this issue.

Yes, this is a known issue - when booting from emmc the content of 'init.partition.rc' needs to be modified manually before the build is done. The same applies to vold.fstab. This needs to be added to this wiki:

http://igloocommunity.org/support/Android_Getting_started_with_ICS#Boot_ICS_from_emmc

something I did not have time to do.

Modification done in init.partition.rc for system/cache/data.

I am referring to sdcard mount here.

Correct me if i am wrong, Seems like LAMC creates a SD card slot in eMMC.

Once we insert sdcard after boot, we need to use hack for real sd card slot to get recognized.
We cannot make Android framework to become aware about the change. Hence apps like gallery/media player will not be aware about this.

Same holds good for consecutive boots.

This is not a bug. It is a fact that we are faced with when we boot from eMMC cs. MMC. I am going to mark it as "Won't fix". We should make sure release notes clearly reference the doc Mathieu wrote in the case end users wish to use the eMMC.

Need a small discussion to conclude on it.

Absolutely. Lets discuss during the bug triaging meeting on Friday.

Also check - https://bugs.launchpad.net/igloocommunity/+bug/988776.

After discussion with Sunil we agreed on the following:

1. Sunil to discuss with Mathieu to decide if changing l-a-m-c is all is needed
2. Outline the changes to l-a-m-c
3. Issue a BP for the Linaro infra team to work on.

There is workaround for even to make Android framework to get aware about this.

After using workaround to mount microSD card, contents of microSD card (such as audio files, video files) may not appear in Music application and Gallery application.

To solve this:
1. Give command as before (sd card mount), and kindly go to “Dev tools” -> select “Scan SD card”.
Now, content will appear in Music application and Gallery application.

Or

2. Instead of only one sd card mount command, give following 3 commands as below:
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/sdcard
setprop EXTERNAL_STORAGE_STATE mounted
am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED --ez read-only false -d file:///mnt/sdcard

Now, content will appear in Music application or Gallery application.

With this workaround, we are able to solve this issue.

May be best is to use this workaround itself.
We can close this issue as this is applicable for only emmc image. And issue get resolved if we use above workaround.

This workaround should be sufficient.

Marked it as Fix Committed due to Suni's comments in the previous comment