From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261767AbULPR0N (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:26:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261797AbULPR0N (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:26:13 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:24448 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261767AbULPR0E (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:26:04 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1C579.7040106@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:27:21 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felix Dorner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-laptop@mobilix.org Subject: Re: internal card reader support References: <41B74174.3080908@web.de> In-Reply-To: <41B74174.3080908@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Felix Dorner wrote: > 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. > This means now to identify the hardware inside and see if I can get > documents for that. > > First I just start with: > > #lspci > [...] > 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev > 01) > 0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev > 01) > 0000:02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 > (rev 01) > [...] > > This is all that I have. Now I am already confused. My box has one > PCMCIA slot. Which is now the PCMCIA and which is the CardReader? What > about the third device? Might this be the integrated infrared controller? > > Can you give me any hints/tips where to start best, what to read first? > > I know this seems to be very difficult, but I have quite some free time > that I don't want to spend playing bzflag all night long, so I think > this is a great way to learn something. The first question is if this shows up as USB (therefore SCSI), or IDE. I had an old desktop with PCMCIA and it all used the IDE driver. I'm interested, I'd love to use the slot on my Acer! -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me