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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:07:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de>
To:        "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arm@freebsd.org, bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de, ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: 4-bit SD Card mode
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> I'm not sure I like this at all.  The devices shouldn't be setting up
> the pins for that device.  In some cases, they can't know how to do
> that, and this is one of them.  The device has no way of knowing if
> all 4 wires are connected, or just 1 and the 'spare' lines are used
> for GPIO.  There are similar problems with the serial ports and the
> ethernet.

You're right. I also forgot that this affects all kind of AT91 controllers
and we don't know if this always works this way, not even with one
connected data line.

> Does the boot loader you are using at least store the board ID in the
> place that Linux expects it?

At first glance the U-Boot loader doesn't seem to do any board-specific
things. I may be mistaken. The board comes with a preinstalled Loader,
Linux distribution and a Linux kernel patched by the manufacturer of the
board. I'm not sure about this question, so I'll ask the manufacturer.

Björn





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