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Report from the Hackathon: Look Ma! I don't need the stupid Camera Cable! (New SD driver!)

Contributed by mbalmer on from the do-I-look-good-now? dept.

Bob Beck writes

I've been busy hacking SCSI stuff, and noticed Uwe has been committing some neat stuff, and then came by asking for SD cards with pictures on them. Hey look, neat stuff!

So, here are a couple of pictures, courtesy the minty new SD driver written by Uwe

-Bob

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.130) on

    Great!

    Will this work with the builtin SD-card slot found in the IBM Thinkpad X40? I understand that many developers have this machine also, so someone probably already tested it... :)

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    1. By henning (209.5.161.190) on

      > Great!
      >
      > Will this work with the builtin SD-card slot found in the IBM Thinkpad X40? I understand that many developers have this machine also, so someone probably already tested it... :)

      that's what it was hacked on...

    2. By Uwe Stuehler (209.5.161.190) uwe@openbsd.org on

      > Will this work with the builtin SD-card slot found in the IBM Thinkpad X40?
      Yes, the sdhc(4) driver is for controllers following the SD Host Controller Standard Simplified Specification. I've seen a Dell laptop that has the same Ricoh PCI chip that Thinkpads have. There are at least three vendors who produce compliant hardware. If you have a PCI SD/MMC controller that shows up as "not configured" you might want to try -current.

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      1. By djm@ (203.58.120.11) on

        It worked first time on my X40 - great work Uwe! Do you plan to make it work on the Zaurus? Does the SD/MMC standard interface apply there too?

  2. By hackmann (212.242.231.41) on

    Is that reverse in the left corner of the group shot?

  3. By Chris (68.230.200.165) on

    Air cooled boxes, you gotta love it. :)

  4. By Anonymous Coward (69.70.207.240) on

    This is excellent!

    Does this mean we can install OpenBSD on SD instead of just CF? I have a 23 in 1 USB 2.0 Card Reader/Writter, SD is just one of them that it supports. I'm currently working on a script that installs OpenBSD 3.9-stable on CF (similar to opensoekris, openflash, flashdist, etc.) on CF media, USB Flash, WRAP, Soekris, etc. I just have yet to try SD and xD if possible...

    Is this only in -current?

  5. By gwyllion (134.58.253.114) on

    Do other developers provide pictures of the hackathon?

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    1. By gwyllion (134.58.253.130) on

      > Do other developers provide pictures of the hackathon?

      Some extra pictures taken by jason@ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonwright/sets/72157594148846870/

  6. By Anonymous Coward (69.70.207.240) on

    The guy beside the guy in red, anyone know where her got that OpenBSD jacket? I'd love to get my hands on that!

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    1. By Miod Vallat (82.195.186.220) miod@ on

      > The guy beside the guy in red, anyone know where her got that OpenBSD jacket? I'd love to get my hands on that!

      This is matthieu@, and he's wearing a fleece from
      http://www.kd85.com/notforsale.html (with pics on http://images.kd85.com/notforsale/)

  7. By Anonymous Coward (210.233.106.4) on

    ...that it'll work with the SD card slot on the Zaurus line?
    AFAIK, there's no documentation for it, but I live in hope...

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    1. By Uwe Stuehler (209.5.161.190) uwe@openbsd.org on

      > ...that it'll work with the SD card slot on the Zaurus line?
      > AFAIK, there's no documentation for it, but I live in hope...

      There is documentation for the important part - the host controller registers - in the PXA27x Processor Family Developer's Manual. It could happen soonish.

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      1. By Bruce Howard (219.111.2.123) bruce@howard.org on http://bruce.howard.org

        > There is documentation for the important part - the host controller registers - in the
        > PXA27x Processor Family Developer's Manual. It could happen soonish.

        There are a number of us running OpenBSD on zaurus that would be very grateful for such support.

        Say, is there anyone there are the hackathon with a zaurus they would be willing to loan you?
        I'd happily volunteer mine (sl-3200/OpenBSD-current) but Calgary is too long a haul from
        Tokyo for me to make this years hackathon in time!

    2. By bqtran (207.243.24.5) bqtran@myrealbox.com on

      > ...that it'll work with the SD card slot on the Zaurus line?
      > AFAIK, there's no documentation for it, but I live in hope...

      ... that it'll work with the sd card interface for TI's PCIxx21/x515 Chipset (found on Acer/Compaq notebooks)? There is a linux driver that works (http://www.webcon.ca/~imorgan/tifm21/) and specs/docs can be found on that website also.

      Thanks.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.130) on

        > > ...that it'll work with the SD card slot on the Zaurus line?
        > > AFAIK, there's no documentation for it, but I live in hope...
        >
        > ... that it'll work with the sd card interface for TI's PCIxx21/x515 Chipset (found on Acer/Compaq notebooks)? There is a linux driver that works (http://www.webcon.ca/~imorgan/tifm21/) and specs/docs can be found on that website also.

        According to http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Controllers/SDHCI TI controller follows the same specification as the Ricoh. I think it should be supported by the driver Uwe wrote. Give it a try and report your findings.

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