A bounty of 450 (was $100) for rtsx SD card reader driver.

[Mario Lobo]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:31 AM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:02:43 -0300
> Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:26 PM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 08:26:41 +0100
> > > Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:00:01 +0100
> > > > Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx at webweaving.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 1 Nov 2019, at 11:48, Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org>
>
> > > 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?
> > > > 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.
> > > > 3) what is the target environment?  Laptop?  PCI card?  Some other
> > > > device with an embedded controller?
> > > >
> > >
> > > So, thanks to the generosity of a FreeBSD user I now have a laptop
> > > on loan with one of the Realtek SD card reader controllers.
> > >
> > > I started working on porting the NetBSD code (basically the same as
> > > the OpenBSD code), but the FreeBSD bus and mmc code is radically
> > > different, so it will take quite a while to get a working driver.
> > >
> > > So far only the pci bus probe code works, but that's a start.
> > >
> >
> > I Have an Acer with this chip and FBSD 11-3 stable to test this on.
> >
>
> Thanks, but the port is being done in FreeBSD13.  It might be
> backported to 11/12, but at the moment that is not guaranteed.
> Depends on how much the bus, pci and mmc code varies.  I
> haven't looked at the code in older versions.
>
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
>

Whenever the code is done, please let us know. I'll take a look and see
what I can do for 11-STABLE.

Thanks, Gary!
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]