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

Gary Jennejohn gljennjohn at gmail.com
Sat Nov 2 17:02:27 UTC 2019


On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:50:43 -0600
Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 17:26 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> > On 2 Nov 2019, at 16:27, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Years ago I was told they were cards, but I couldn't find any.  
> > 
> > ...  
> > > I'd say we also need docs to make a proper go of it because that
> > > too is usually needed...
> > 
> > An alternative source of information is the linux port:
> > 
> > 	https://github.com/gexplorer/RTS5209-linux-driver
> > 	https://github.com/chrisnew/rts_pstor
> >   
> 
> And just how do you draw the line between "I looked at the linux code
> as a source of information" and "I copied the linux code in violation
> of its GPL license" ?
> 

The driver was also ported to NetBSD, so that gives us two BSD-based
drivers as reference.

Plus, the author of the OpenBSD driver may have some documentation
available.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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