--- In Eddie Dawydiuk <> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> >>> Better? In what way? I've been wresting with the SD Card for a
> > couple
> >>> weeks. Where did you find the other driver?
> >> It works better for me in that I can now boot the machine without
> >> e2fsck complaining just about everything in the SD card. Minor
> > issues
> >> remain, the check now at most performs a minor cleanup on
> > superblocks
> >> due to (I think) problems unmounting the partitions on the card.
> >> Previously I had the machine perform checks on the partitions at
> > every
> >> boot much longer due to orphaned inodes and references being
fixed
> > and
> >> other weird things.
> >>
> >> That said, I haven't tested it enough yet, so I don't know
whether
> > it
> >> will continue temporarily freezing the machine.
> >>
> >> I found this driver in one of those distribution tarballs for CFs
> >> browsing around in TS's FTP, the file is called
> >> debian-sarge-1.XX.tar.bz2. Unfortunately I don't have a link at
> > hand
> >> right now.
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >
> > I agree it's a bit unprofessional that there are so many loose
ends
> > and bits and pieces to sort out. I think TS would do themselves
some
> > credit if these things were a bit more finished.
>
> Could you point out specific problems? As far as I can tell the
problems
> being discussed above are caused by someone loading Debian on an SD
card
> themselves... I can guarantee you, none of these problems exist on
our
> default shipping SD cards... All of our default shipping images are
> available on our FTP site, they are updated every Sunday night.
>
> ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/images/
>
> I did see one issue pointed out that will be corrected. That is the
ts11
> modules tarball does not have the most recent shipping SD card
driver...
>
> > This is especially true for the sdcards drivers where source is
not
> > even available.
>
> If you have an ethical problem with a proprietary bus, then I would
take
> a stand and not use that bus. Use USB flash drives, CF cards... Or
you
> could commission Technologic Systems to rewrite the SD core so it
would
> work with existing open source SD drivers.
>
> > I think this is the server you want:
> > ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-linux-cd/distributions/
>
> This is the directory you want ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/images/
debian/
> Please see the README in the images directory
> ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/images/README.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> _________________
Hi Eddie,
good to see that TS keep an eye on customer comments and some of
these things will get cleaned up.
It's only detail but it lets down the otherwise excellent resources
made available. Anyone going to get anywhere with embedded will be
able to get around these things but it does not make sense for
everyone to lose time fixing the same thing.
One of your selling points is reduced time to market. These stumbling
blocks can be frustrating.
The driver issue was one thing I had in mind when I made the comment.
Glad to see you're on the ball.
Since you're clearly responsive I'll report other things I notice,
thanks.
I was not bashing on the sdcard driver issue, the situation on that
was discussed not so long ago. My point was simply that if there is a
problem in that area it's not even possible to fix it because of your
licence restrictions. That's one of the major problems with that
situation.
You were hoping to review the way that was presented so customers
were aware of that choice before ordering.
Maybe an OSS solution can be found when you move to 2.6 kernels.
Personally I dont use SD so I won't be paying for it ;)
thanks for your reply.
/js
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