Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> The flash card I am talking about is those like SD, CF, mini SD. They
>>> are very popular in digital camera,
>>> cell phone, ....
>>
>> Yes, I understand. I've written an SD driver for Solaris/SPARC
>> (Winbond). It is supported on Tadpole hardware. The chip is connected
>> to the system via ebus (which is another name for ISA on SPARC. :-)
>>
>> No, that driver will never be part of OpenSolaris. At the time I wrote
>> it, all of the interfaces from Winbond and the SDcard trade association
>> were all very proprietary, and required all sorts of NDAs.
>
> Any change it could still be donated to Solaris (SPARC and x86) as a
> closed source driver though ? I'd rather a closed driver than no
> driver at all.
I don't know. Maybe. One of the problems with the driver(s) is that it
uses a layered approach using nexus interfaces that have changed
periodically from release to release.
-- Garrett
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