Remix Mini PC: After a Year of Dead Ends, the eMMC Finally Talks

Matt Miller
Source files: GitHub For more than a year I have been chasing the same brick wall on the Remix Mini PC project: I could sideload a working Linux from an SD card, but the internal eMMC was a black box. Every attempt to read from it returned an I/O error. Every theory I tried — write-protect bits, NAND blacklists, hardware reset quirks, lockout states left behind by Android — went nowhere. It turns out the cause was none of those things. It was one missing line in a device tree. The setup recap Th