Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Flash Media block driver problem! | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:37:18 +0530 | From | "Jinu M." <> |
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 12:47 schrieb Jinu M.: > > cool; linux can use a GPL driver for such things... > > > > [jinum] guess the question/clarification is not clear! > > This is a driver for our own controller (PCI). Which is a PCI based > > card. > > This card is not based on the SCSI or IDE interface so how will some > > other driver work for it unless we write ( or get it written sharing our > > hardware spec) a driver for the interface? > > It will not work. A block driver must be written for such hardware to make > it work.
Hmm, they are willing to release specs... that's good.
[Jinum] This going way off from the original question...
* NO SPECS * will be out ;)
I was just trying to prove how the existing drivers will not work for our controller unless of course we release the driver we are writing :)
Guess the problem is not well framed, sorry about my English. Someone who has worked on a block driver would answer it straight away..
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