Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards

There are a few people running 2.6 on the C7x series.  Check the kernels 
available on openembedded.
Dow


Tony Godshall wrote:

>According to Brown, Aaron F,
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Klaus Weidner [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:59 PM
>>>To: Tony Godshall
>>>Cc: [email protected]
>>>Subject: Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards
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>>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
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>>>>You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running
>>>>even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface?
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>>>That interface turns it into a miniature Debian system, but I haven't
>>>found any tools that make it useful for PIM tasks, such as address book
>>>and calendar, and syncing with a desktop machine. The Qtopia/Opie PIM
>>>tools apparently don't work in the X11 environment unless you recompile
>>>them yourself, and GPE was still mostly useless last time I checked
>>>(which was a couple of months ago).
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>>I also found GPE mostly useless, at least for the PIM tasks.  Overall I
>>really liked GPE, it just seemed a little rough around the edges.  This
>>was also a couple of months back...  One possibility is setting up a
>>dual boot environment.  Something pretty close to the original Sharp ROM
>>image for PDA tasks and something more like pocket Debian for
>>experimenting and more workstation oriented tasks.  But currently I am
>>just going to see if Open Embedded, www.openembedded.org, keeps me happy
>>on both fronts.
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>>>But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend
>>>specific Debian packages please do so.
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>>>>But before I order I just want to be clear on this... if I
>>>>get SD, I won't be able to use it if I upgrade my kernel
>>>>past whatever Sharp gives me (can I run pocketworkstation
>>>>and Opie and GPE with Sharp's kernel)?
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>>>pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the
>>>others.
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>>You can run Opie and / or GPE with the OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded kernel
>>which either is the Sharp kernel or (what I believe to be the case) uses
>>the Sharp SD/MMC driver module.  There was some discussion, probably on
>>a more Zaurus centric list, of somebody writing an MMC only driver
>>module since avoiding the whole SD issue would allow it to be open
>>sourced.  I don't know if anything happened with that.
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>Ah, so really no kernels past Sharp's?  Nobody running e.g.
>2.6.x?
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