--- In "Tom Hansen" <> wrote:
>
> --- In "Jesse Off" <joff@> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > The biggest new thing about this board is the inclusion of 2 SD
> flash card slots [...]
> >
> > //Jesse Off
> >
>
> I had previously heard that the SD people were not allowing an open
> source driver for the SD specification to be released. Has this
> changed, or has some arrangement been made to somehow circumvent the
> GPL and have closed-source drivers for Linux?
>
This is still the case. Technologic Systems has become a member of
the SD card association so we were able to create our own hardware
core and software driver though our hands are tied such that we cannot
release source code to either the driver or the hardware core.
However, we have written a binary Linux driver module and a set of
generic, OS-independent read/write routines for accessing the SD flash
inside of an ARM object (.o) file. If it weren't for the GPL, we
could also have provided a precompiled kernel with the driver
built-in, but unfortunately we have to boot to an initrd to load the
SD driver as a module.
//Jesse Off
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