Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:48:22 +0100 | From | Ian Stirling <> | Subject | Re: SDIO card support in Linux |
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Pierre Ossman wrote: > madhu chikkature wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is regarding the discussion going on in the list about the >> support of SDIO cards in Linux. I read some discussion happening to >> support SDIO cards using the existing Linux MMC core but I could not >> figure out what would be the direction the community to support the >> SDIO cards. <snip> >> With this, is it a fissible solution to have the MMC core do the >> initialization part of the card by having the CMD sequence for SDIO >> card (CMD5 and CMD3) in the mmc_setup sequence and maintain the SDIO >> card list along with MMC/SD? >> > > SD mandates a star topology (just a single card per bus), so we'll just > force a single card into the list. SD memory cards can actually work on > a shared bus, SDIO can not. It's not a big problem in practice though.
Is this true in SD-1 bit mode, or SPI? I see nothing on a quick read-through of the abbreviated SDIO spec precluding this. Of course, it'd mean wire-or'd interrupt lines.
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