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[217.226.51.104]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j22sm14061705wrd.41.2019.11.02.03.57.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 02 Nov 2019 03:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 11:57:05 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Gleb Popov Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik , freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: A bounty of 450 (was $100) for rtsx SD card reader driver. Message-ID: <20191102115705.323376cd@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: References: <9C97A802-A542-44B3-A295-79CCF70BF8D2@webweaving.org> <20191102082641.52f64cc8@ernst.home> Reply-To: gljennjohn@gmail.com X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.4 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 474wxJ5sCsz4TsC X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.993,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:57:09 -0000 On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 11:54:01 +0400 Gleb Popov wrote: > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:26 AM Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:00:01 +0100 > > Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > > > On 1 Nov 2019, at 11:48, Gleb Popov wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM Gleb Popov > > wrote: > > > > > > >> I've posted a bounty for this bug: > > > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204521 > > > > > > > > In case anyone is interested, the bounty is $375 already. > > > > > > It is 450$ now. > > > > > > > This raises several questions: > > 1) which version(s) of FreeBSD? > > > > I'd be OK with CURRENT and MFH to 12 sometime. > I had commit bits (src, ports) at one time (gj@), but I gave them back several years ago. So, since you're a committer, you would have to sheperd the code into the tree. But as a ports committer that may not be so easy. > 2) how does a developer get his/her hands on a device which uses this > > controller? It is not reasonable to expect a developer will to buy a > > laptop or PCI card just to develop a driver. > > > > With that I cannot help, unfortunately. I can, however, test the code and > help with debugging. > Well, I've been developing drivers for 35 years and I can tell you that this approach would not too very practical. But it might work. > 3) what is the target environment? Laptop? PCI card? Some other > > device with an embedded controller? > > > > In my case it is an ASUS notebook. > I have 3 laptops but unfortunately none of them uses this controller. Maybe I can find a PCIe card with the controller. Would probably cost less than $450. -- Gary Jennejohn