Ricoh SD card reader issue

[tom at diogunix.com]

Hi @all,

I recently got me a Thinkpad T510i with an internal Ricoh Card Reader and 
put FreeBSD 9 RELEASE on the new machine.

Unfortunately it seems one cannot get a new device in /dev though loading 
sdhci / mmc / mmcsd modules 

I get messages via dmesg and /var/log/messages but no new device pops up
(what device name is usually used ?) 

Searching the web, I found that (at least in 2009) TI obviously refused to 
reveal information to mav at freebsd.org who wanted to work on a workaround.

Just now asking whether this state still is valid today.

Any news on this ?

kind regards
Tom

PS: Sometimes I believe the BSD community (and maybe Linux community) should 
try to establish sort of a "Unix-Ready" Certificate to force hardware 
sellers to make better products. 

This at least would help us to make better decisions when buying hardware.

Regarding the increasing market share of Ubuntu, there might be some 
relevance for this for hardware manufacturers ;-)