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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:54:32 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Matthias Rampke <matthias.rampke@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: What is the state of FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug?
Message-ID:  <20100301095431.GA94784@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <B65240FC-D7B9-4A06-926C-424359CEA771@semihalf.com>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:25:04PM +0100, Rafal Jaworowski typed:
> 
> > Rafal: is the SD driver available as a patch, as long as it's not in
> > the main tree? Being able to boot from SD cards would be an almost
> > ideal solution, second only to internal flash (which is still way off
> > due to lack of a NAND filesystem, I know).
> 
> There isn't ready to apply patch, sorry; while the SD/MMC driver itself is a pretty self-contained piece of code (http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/misc/mv_sdio.c), there are extensions and updates required to the GPIO code to make it work (some MMC lines go through the GPIO, we need to handle debouncing for presence detect signals and so on); we have other local GPIO modifications, and this is where some work is required to distill, clean up and reintagrate with HEAD.
> 
> Keep nagging me about it and I'll finally complete the integration :-)

<nag>
I'm also very eager to see this working on FreeBSD. Would like to help as well, if I can.
Any hints on how to compile this code (mv_sdio.c) into a 9-Current kernel?
</nag>

Thanks very much for your work on this!

Ruben



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