A bounty of 450 (was $100) for rtsx SD card reader driver.

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 11:54:01 +0400
Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:26 AM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:00:01 +0100
> > Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx at webweaving.org> wrote:
> >  
> > > On 1 Nov 2019, at 11:48, Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org> wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org>  
> > wrote:  
> > >  
> > > >> I've posted a bounty for this bug:
> > > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204521  
> > > >
> > > > In case anyone is interested, the bounty is $375 already.  
> > >
> > > It is 450$ now.
> > >  
> >
> > This raises several questions:
> > 1) which version(s) of FreeBSD?
> >  
> 
> I'd be OK with CURRENT and MFH to 12 sometime.
> 

I had commit bits (src, ports) at one time (gj@), but I gave them
back several years ago.  So, since you're a committer, you would
have to sheperd the code into the tree.  But as a ports committer
that may not be so easy.

> 2) how does a developer get his/her hands on a device which uses this
> > controller?  It is not reasonable to expect  a developer will to buy a
> > laptop or PCI card just to develop a driver.
> >  
> 
> With that I cannot help, unfortunately. I can, however, test the code and
> help with debugging.
> 

Well, I've been developing drivers for 35 years and I can tell
you that this approach would not too very practical.  But it
might work.

> 3) what is the target environment?  Laptop?  PCI card?  Some other
> > device with an embedded controller?
> >  
> 
> In my case it is an ASUS notebook.
> 

I have 3 laptops but unfortunately none of them uses this
controller.

Maybe I can find a PCIe card with the controller.  Would probably
cost less than $450.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn