From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-laptop@mobilix.org
Subject: Re: internal card reader support
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:28:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041208202832.GA15615@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041208182134.GB2345@redhat.com>
Hi!
> > My notebook (hp nx9105) has an integrated 5in1 card-reader. I would
> > really like to use this with linux.
> > Since I do not think it is supported yet, I d like to know if it might
> > be possible to write a module or so for this.
> > I am just an average C programmer, but always wanted to dive into kernel
> > developement. My knowledge on computer architecture is also no more than
> > basic, so this might be something to really learn a lot...
> > So I start at zero knowledge now. First of course I need to find out if
> > what I want to do is possible at all.
>
> All of these devices that I've seen use the usb-storage module.
> You might need to futz with the scsi_mod module max_luns argument to make it
> see all the slots though.
Unfortunately, that's not the case. At least hp nx5000 has something
custom for reading MMC/SD cards, definitely not usb reader. There's
partial docs somewhere, you just need to bitbang it over PCI.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-08 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 18:01 internal card reader support Felix Dorner
2004-12-08 18:21 ` Dave Jones
2004-12-08 20:28 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-12-08 18:50 ` Jurgen Kramer
2004-12-08 19:21 ` David Vrabel
2004-12-14 13:03 ` Felix Dorner
2004-12-14 13:24 ` David Vrabel
2004-12-16 17:27 ` Bill Davidsen
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