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

>-----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
>
>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:24:03PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
>> You mean it's not really useful as an organizer when running
>> even the innovative pocketworkstation.com user interface?
>
>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).

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.

>
>But maybe things have improved since then - if anyone can recommend
>specific Debian packages please do so.
>
>> 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)?
>
>pocketworkstation works with the Sharp kernel, don't know about the
>others.

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.


>> I can't seem to find MMC at 2GB, so to get that cap. I'd
>> have to go SD.  Kingston also mentions MMCplus but nobody
>> seems to sell that.  It's supposed to be faster than MMC,
>> bus then again so is SD.
>
>Don't count on anything being faster than plain MMC, as far as I know
all
>the fancier modes require special driver support to work, and you don't
>see any improvement with the stock driver.
>
>-Klaus
>
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