Re: HP/Compaq (Winbond) SD/MMC reader supported

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Sep 14 2004 - 10:17:07 EST


Hi!

> >Hmm, it does something here on my nx5000... It causes 2 "bad parity
> >from KBD" errors and then freezes boot. But the chip is detected and I
> >see
> >
> >mmc0: W83L51xD id f00 at 0x248 irq 1 dma 0
> >
> >message. (How do I guess right values for irq? I thought that
> >interference with keyboard means it uses irq 1, but it is probably not
> >the case, and default values did not work, too).
> >
> >I'll try turning off ALSA because it actually freezes machine only
> >after alsa is loaded.
> >
> >
> You seem to be running an old version of the driver. The ports for the
> driver are also often populated by SuperIO chip. The detection routine
> was a bit optimistic in the earlier versions so it started resetting the
> wrong hardware.
>
> As of writing the latest version is 0.7 and a patch can be downloaded at:
>
> http://projects.drzeus.cx/wbsd/download.php?get=files/wbsd-0.7.patch

Hmm, if I disable the check (and make id 0xf00 valid), it will freeze
my machine during boot :-(. Where did you get documentation for this
beast?

Pavel
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