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Re: [Fwd: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7390 tssdcard and tsuart driver incompatibili

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7390 tssdcard and tsuart driver incompatibility with DMA]
From: Daniel Smolik <>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:54:26 +0200
Breton M. Saunders napsal(a):
>  
> 
> Hi Jesse,
> 
> Thank you very much for making the source for sdcore2.c available.
> That will make life a lot easier.
>  > I'm not sure whats meant by chilling out and "coming clean"? I was
>  > under the impression that the days equating closed-source software to a
>  > life of crime have come and gone from the bulk of the open source
>  > community.
>  >
> This is a (rather small) reflection of my frustration - I did ask
> several times for help and for private only access to the sdcore source
> code for my project. I never received the source code which you provide
> below. I also spent a significant amount of time both reworking the
> shim, and decompiling your sdcore.
> 
> My project was held up as a consequence.
> 
> I'm happy to accept that there was a miscommunication - perhaps I should
> have called you directly.
> 
>  > Is this the code you're looking for?
>  >
>  > ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/misc/sdcore2.c 
> <ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/misc/sdcore2.c>
>  >
> YES!
> 
> What this means is that I can contribute a forward patch from my 2.6.27
> - which greatly simplifies linux use on your boards - here is why:
>
Hi Breton,
is possible get your souce ? I now run 2.6.28.3 on 7400 and would like use SD 
card.
Thanks

                Dan




> My build boots directly to a / partition using ext2 - no pissing around
> with initrds and other pre-load file system crap. It also means that
> the nand flash need never be touched; as JFFS2 / YAFFS2, etc all have
> forward compatibility issues that make using the fastboot with the
> boards difficult.
> 
>  > I hope you're right regarding the recent SD association public release
>  > of the spec. We'll continue to keep the Verilog closed source though at
>  > least for a couple more years. We'll likely release a binary netlist
>  > of that soon for the TS-7500 FPGA reimplementations though.
>  >
> I will need to get the PDFs for you at a later date - however, I
> obtained them using google. They're on another computer, and - yes I am
> correct in this because I used the docs to guess what your binary was
> doing. The only part I did not re-implement was the sdcard locking -
> which is also documented.
> 



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