Collie got 2.6 driver for SD/MMC
Marcin Juszkiewicz April 19th, 2007
Few days ago Thomas Kunze wrote to openzaurus-devel list that he has working SD/MMC driver for Sharp Zaurus SL-5000/5500 (aka Collie). He provided patches, Ångström image + kernel so anyone can test.
His patches are now present in current OpenEmbedded metadata so anyone can build 2.6.20 kernel for collie to test SD/MMC. Koen Kooi built images for Ångström so it can be taken as start of support for this machine.
My collie (after charging and removing dust) booted nicely to 2.6.20 powered Ångström console image and I was able to test my cards against driver. Only 16MB MMC card was working so I sent two SD cards (64M and 256M) to Thomas. Now he will have also some not-yet-working cards for testing (all his SD/MMC cards works).
Also worth reminding — there is a bounty for writing SD/MMC driver for collie/2.6 so if you want to appreciate Thomas work you can join ;)
We need more testers for this driver (serial cable suggested to get kernel logs) so we will be able to get working version. 2.6 kernel on Collie has some weak points and need work but now, when we have SD/MMC driver it show that it is worth to improve support for it. If everything will go ok we will be able to release Ångström for all Zaurus models.
You need to load one module after start:
modprobe locomo_spi
After progress bar stop you need to press Datebook + Left to switch to VT1. After login you can remove it with one command:
ipkg remove psplash
Please report your success/failure on OpenZaurus devel mailing list.