Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Rolf Leggewie]

Hi,

I just stumbled across 
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~miguel/zaurus/ (found it mentioned 
in the OZ wiki) and http://josejx.net/collie/.  They are dealing with 
reverse-engineering the SD slot on the collie.  I was wondering if 
developpers are aware of this and if this could potentially mean that 
collie has a future in angstrom as well.

Regards

Ro

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Richard Purdie]

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:40 +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> I just stumbled across 
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~miguel/zaurus/ (found it mentioned 
> in the OZ wiki) and http://josejx.net/collie/.  They are dealing with 
> reverse-engineering the SD slot on the collie.  I was wondering if 
> developpers are aware of this and if this could potentially mean that 
> collie has a future in angstrom as well.

It is known about. We need someone with the time to develop a 2.6 driver
based on this information and asking appropriate questions. Its a time
problem :-/.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Rolf Leggewie]

Richard Purdie wrote:
> Its a time problem :-/.

I am glad this has turned from a knowledge to a time problem.  This is 
progress.

Would it make sense to set up a bounty to encourage someone to pick this 
up?  I pledge 20€.

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Patrik Gfeller]

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Rolf Leggewie wrote:
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| Would it make sense to set up a bounty to encourage someone to pick this
| up?  I pledge 20€.
... as I am a collie user as well I would also like to contribute to 
such a bounty - is there a place were we could register such?

I would contribute with 25€.

regards,
Patrik
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Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Anthony Joseph Seward]

I'd pay too.

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:59 +0100, Patrik Gfeller wrote:
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> Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> |
> | Would it make sense to set up a bounty to encourage someone to pick this
> | up?  I pledge 20€.
> ... as I am a collie user as well I would also like to contribute to 
> such a bounty - is there a place were we could register such?
> 
> I would contribute with 25€.
> 
> regards,
> Patrik
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Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Rolf Leggewie]

Anthony and Patrik, great.  Thank you.

I made a little entry on the FAQ page at wiki.openzaurus.org shortly 
after sending out my mail.  Maybe you want to commit to your pledge 
there as well.  http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ

On a more general note, we should discuss about when the bounty shall be 
paid out.  I made the current wording more strict to be on the safe 
side.  Getting a patch into upstream kernel would of course be the 
ultimate goal, but I would be happy to pay even before that goal is 
achieved (for example if main devs accepted the patch into OE).  This is 
something we need to discuss.

I am somewhat inexperienced with bounties but I think having a clear and 
measurable goal is important both for the willingness of contributors to 
pledge and for devs to go ahead and do it.  I wonder if there are any 
online tools one can use to manage the process better and increase 
visibility.  A quick google hunt turned up the following:

http://www.opensourcexperts.com/
https://launchpad.net/bounties/
http://bountycounty.org/
https://www.bountysource.com/
http://donorge.org/

Any comments?  This is something of general interest for OE, I think.

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Justin Patrin]

On 1/4/07, Rolf Leggewie <no2spam@nospam.arcornews.de> wrote:
> Anthony and Patrik, great.  Thank you.
>
> I made a little entry on the FAQ page at wiki.openzaurus.org shortly
> after sending out my mail.  Maybe you want to commit to your pledge
> there as well.  http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ

wiki.openzaurus.org is still timing out.

-- 
Justin Patrin

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Patrik Gfeller]

Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Anthony and Patrik, great.  Thank you.
>
> I made a little entry on the FAQ page at wiki.openzaurus.org shortly 
> after sending out my mail.  Maybe you want to commit to your pledge 
> there as well.  http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ
>   
... done.

Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Anthony Joseph Seward]

I've added mine too

http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ#Which_SD_Cards_work_with_OpenZaurus

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 09:37 +0100, Patrik Gfeller wrote:
> Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> > Anthony and Patrik, great.  Thank you.
> >
> > I made a little entry on the FAQ page at wiki.openzaurus.org shortly 
> > after sending out my mail.  Maybe you want to commit to your pledge 
> > there as well.  http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ
> >   
> ... done.
> 
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Re: Reverse-engineering SD specs for collie

[Anthony Joseph Seward]

The bounty at 

http://wiki.openzaurus.org/FAQ#Which_SD_Cards_work_with_OpenZaurus

is up to $100 + 95 Euro.  Is there some way to get the word out to those
who might have the skills to make good on it?

Tony