Re: mmc/sd drivers

[Paulo Marques]

Edward Macfarlane Smith wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:14, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> > > Where can the latest mmc drivers in the kernel source be located? I
> > > am not talking about mass-storage usb or pcmcia drivers. I downloaded
> > > 2.2.26 and there is no drivers/mmc directory. Where can the mmc
> > > drivers be located from their original distribution point?
> > 2.2 is old.
> >
> > MMC is supported for example on sharp zaurus, look
> > there for sources. SD requires binary-only module. Avoid it.
>
> Thats not completely true. Last weekend I was using a 512Mb SD card on my iPAQ 
> 5550 with the 2.4.19 hh36.9 kernel from Handhelds.org. It was rather slow 
> access (playing mp3s directly off the sd card had problems with pauses), but 
> did work. I haven't actually got around to building a kernel for an ARM 
> machine yet, but if you need the source I suggest you look round 
> handhelds.org.

AFAIK, only the MMC-like modes of the SD cards are supported. The driver can't 
handle encryption, paralel data transfer modes (using 4 bits at a time) or SDIO 
cards.

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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