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Re: [ts-7000] Re: What would you pay TS to bring all of their OS version

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: What would you pay TS to bring all of their OS versions up to date?
From: "Breton M. Saunders" <>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:58 +0000
janne.kario wrote:
> --- In  "Blair" <> wrote:
>   
>> What standard features would you like to see compiled in and/or pre-built as 
>> modules?
>>     
>
> SD card support. TS did publish the sources for the closed source binary blob 
> (sdcore.c) which would have enabled us to compile the SD card driver without 
> hassle. Going back one year or so there used to x pages long discussions 
> about the SD card closed source blob. However, now that they released it 
> there has been surprisingly little happening in that front (or people just 
> haven't been making enough noise about themselves if they managed to compile 
> the driver). 
>   
Oh yes - I did compile against it and released a patch a long time ago.  
I was able to use their sdcore.c to replace the reverse-engineered one I 
built from their blob.  Much as I'd like to have claimed my reverse 
engineering to be perfect - the original sdcore.c was far more elegant 
and didn't exhibit some of the bugs my code->c translation did. :)

I made a chunk of fixes to the "shim" layer and improved the DMA-read 
support.  Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do DMA write support.

I had 2.6.27/29 booting directly from the SD card - which allowed me to 
build a no-initrd system, and boot the system directly from a single 
ext2 partition.  The solution wasn't test hardened, however, it was very 
convenient to be able to build an entire system image on my pc; program 
an SD card and then just boot the board off of it.

-Brett





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