Re: Arcom Control Systems SBC-MediaGX

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 13:09:49 EST


lee@spamtastic.demon.co.uk said:
> I am particulaly interested in the usb support, and support for the
> on board flash disk (comes with some sort of Datalight software).

If it's a DiskOnChip, the situation is this:

There are binary-only drivers available from the manufacturer. With these,
you have the unhappy choice of either violating the GPL by distributing a
kernel with them linked in, or putting up with the waste of using initrd
and modules in your embedded system.

There is also a GPL'd driver at www.linux-mtd.infradead.org, which works
fine in read-only mode, but still isn't ready for production use in write
mode, although I can't actually reproduce any of the problems which have
been reported.

If it's not a DiskOnChip, but onboard NOR flash, that ought to be supported
too, as soon as I work out how I've broken my FTL code :)

If you want to know about drivers for the touchscreen, find out exactly what
it is and mail me the details.

--
dwmw2

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