[Gc-linux-devel] Re: New EXI driver

[Albert H. <alb...@gm...>]

Hi Rob!

Rob Reilink <rob <at> reilink.net> writes:

> I read on the website the new EXI driver is there :). Now I understand
> that it was nescessary to remove my SD card driver to make the new EXI
> framework work, because it is not quite a 'real' EXI device. I.E. No ID
> command. Is someone already working on it? I have way too little time,
> but I might find some time to work on it or give some hints to someone
> working on it.

Well, indeed I made provisions for it to work, even not providing a EXI ID :).

The EXI framework will report a fake EXI ID of 0xfffffffe (EXI_ID_NONE) for
"cards" inserted in memcard slots but not reporting EXI IDs (ie, non memcards,
like the SD/MMC cards).

EXI drivers written for this kind of cards, use the EXI_ID_NONE in their eids to
instruct the EXI framework to match only against channel/device instead of EXI
ID/channel/device. The driver's probe function must too accept the device.

So detection of MMC/SD cards (insertion, removal) is already supported.

I have the intention to write a MMC (and SD) driver for the cube, using the
native Linux MMC framework (which I need to modify a bit first).

But the latest DVD related events got my attention...

Cheers,
Albert