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This avoids the need for and additional EEPROM/OTP and leverages the persistence of eMMC. One example is the Arduino UNO-Q, where the WiFi MAC address and the Bluetooth Device address are stored in the eMMC Boot1 partition. Until now, accessing this information required a custom bootloader to read the data and inject it into the Device Tree before handing control over to the kernel. This approach is fragile and leads to device-specific workarounds. Rather than adding a new NVMEM provider specifically to the eMMC subsystem, the new support operates at the block layer, allowing any block device to behave like other non-volatile memories such as EEPROM or OTP. This series builds on earlier work by Daniel Golle that enables block devices to act as NVMEM providers: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6061aa4201030b9bb2f8d03ef32a564fdb786ed1.1709667858.git.daniel@makrotopia.org/ It also introduces an NVMEM layout description for the Arduino UNO-Q, allowing device-specific data stored in the eMMC Boot1 partition to be accessed in a standard way. WiFi and Ethernet already support retrieving MAC addresses from NVMEM. Bluetooth requires similar support, which is also addressed. Note that this is currently limited to eMMC-backed block devices, as only the eMMC core associates a firmware node with the block device (add_disk_fwnode). This can be easily extended in the future to support additional block drivers. Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain --- Daniel Golle (1): block: implement NVMEM provider Loic Poulain (8): dt-bindings: mmc: Document support for nvmem-layout arm64: dts: qcom: arduino-imola: Describe boot1 NVMEM layout dt-bindings: net: wireless: qcom,ath10k: Add NVMEM MAC address cell arm64: dts: qcom: arduino-imola: Get WiFi MAC from NVMEM dt-bindings: bluetooth: qcom: Add NVMEM BD address cell Bluetooth: hci_sync: Add NVMEM-backed BD address retrieval Bluetooth: qca: Set NVMEM BD address quirks when address is invalid arm64: dts: qcom: arduino-imola: Get Bluetooth BD address from NVMEM .../devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-card.yaml | 20 +++ .../net/bluetooth/qcom,bluetooth-common.yaml | 10 ++ .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.yaml | 10 ++ arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb2210-arduino-imola.dts | 30 ++++ block/Kconfig | 9 ++ block/Makefile | 1 + block/blk-nvmem.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c | 5 +- include/net/bluetooth/hci.h | 18 +++ net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 56 ++++++- 10 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 47c4835fc0fed583d01d90387b67633950eba2b2 change-id: 20260428-block-as-nvmem-4b308e8bda9a Best regards, -- Loic Poulain