Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Debian and SD cards

[Rob R. <ro...@re...>]

GoatZilla wrote:

>Hi, I had a few questions about the GC Linux happenings...
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>1.  How fast is the SD card access on the GC?
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Max speed of the SD card in 1 bit mode (which must be used on the GC) is 
25Mbit/s. Unfortunately, the GC allows to choose for 16Mbit or 27Mbit. 
So with a little overclocking (which is really just a software setting) 
27MBit/s is possible

>2.  Are there any plans underway to just enable running Debian on the
>GC (non-NFS)?  It would be nice to be able to simply boot the PowerPC
>netinst image with a minor amount of hacking, and just do a netinst
>onto and run off of SD, since flash is so cheap nowadays.  Hence my
>question #1...
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Plans have been there to enable a GC to run just off an SD card w/o NFS 
(or without network at all if you boot another way than PSO). It should 
be no problem, except:
-afaik the SD driver has been disabled since the EXI framework has been 
changed
-I (writer of the original SD driver) have no time to fix it or to get 
playing with the SD-only boot method

Rob

>Thanks!
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