Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:31:52 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A bounty of 450 (was $100) for rtsx SD card reader driver. Message-ID: <20191119153152.26a725cf@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <CA%2ByoEx8ddAmmkV8hzO9WR1TMkuE1v0CvVXVXoV2mXdfccoURvA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALH631k4gefPshr1nJM213FwfP0QgQhZ=s1U32ejMLSW42e3qw@mail.gmail.com> <CALH631=8tSCfHcT3Fhu7gC9LSx-pA1M57Ae=NPuaRRhAp1zZdA@mail.gmail.com> <9C97A802-A542-44B3-A295-79CCF70BF8D2@webweaving.org> <20191102082641.52f64cc8@ernst.home> <20191111172543.74f95d07@ernst.home> <CA%2ByoEx8ddAmmkV8hzO9WR1TMkuE1v0CvVXVXoV2mXdfccoURvA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:02:43 -0300 Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:26 PM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 08:26:41 +0100 > > Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:00:01 +0100 > > > Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On 1 Nov 2019, at 11:48, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > >> I've posted a bounty for this bug: > > > > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204521 > > > > > > > > > > In case anyone is interested, the bounty is $375 already. > > > > > > > > It is 450$ now. > > > > > > > > > > This raises several questions: > > > 1) which version(s) of FreeBSD? > > > 2) how does a developer get his/her hands on a device which uses this > > > controller? It is not reasonable to expect a developer will to buy a > > > laptop or PCI card just to develop a driver. > > > 3) what is the target environment? Laptop? PCI card? Some other > > > device with an embedded controller? > > > > > > > So, thanks to the generosity of a FreeBSD user I now have a laptop > > on loan with one of the Realtek SD card reader controllers. > > > > I started working on porting the NetBSD code (basically the same as > > the OpenBSD code), but the FreeBSD bus and mmc code is radically > > different, so it will take quite a while to get a working driver. > > > > So far only the pci bus probe code works, but that's a start. > > > > I Have an Acer with this chip and FBSD 11-3 stable to test this on. > Thanks, but the port is being done in FreeBSD13. It might be backported to 11/12, but at the moment that is not guaranteed. Depends on how much the bus, pci and mmc code varies. I haven't looked at the code in older versions. -- Gary Jennejohn
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