Author Topic: Does the C860 have SDIO? (Read 89193 times)

lardman · « **Reply #15 on:** December 10, 2003, 11:22:39 am »

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Perhaps it is only the 5000 and 5500 that aren\'t fully wired? That would be good news.

Depends on your point of view ;-). The 5x00 devices also have SA1110 chips as opposed to the PXA2x0 ones which the other Z\'s have. I was under the impression (merely from reading the other forum) that the PXA2x0 might have some kind of built in SDIO...?

Si

raybert · « **Reply #16 on:** December 10, 2003, 06:01:53 pm »

hmm...well, you might be in luck. Shawn Gordon coincidentally just happened to mention this on the tkc mailing list today (the conversation was about SD transfer rates) and he mentioned that he thinks the devices after the 5500 have all of the pins wired. So, I guess it\'s so!

~ray

Foxdie · « **Reply #17 on:** December 10, 2003, 07:14:08 pm »

Can we get a double check on this and/or get this Shawn bloke to visit this board? There\'s no point us getting our hopes up just to have them dashed.

Foxdie · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2003, 07:19:44 pm »

*BUMP* I feel this is important, please don\'t let this idea just get swept under the rug!

zbones · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2003, 08:16:49 pm »

Foxdie,
you bumped this just as I thinking there was some sort of conspiracy.

I recalled reading it, and thought I had read it on the sharp devnet board. I have just spent 20mins searching for this post on the sharp devnet, and I thought it had been removed when the board went down.

If this could be made to work then there will be much rejoicing.

My 760 could arrive in the next 7 hours, so I\'m off to bed.

Peter.

brewin · « **Reply #20 on:** December 29, 2003, 11:20:28 pm »

I think they do have the capability for SDIO, but the problem is the driver. Apparently you have to pay $1000 a year to the SD Card Association at www.sdcard.org to be able to develop drivers. Although they do provide a simplified version of the SDIO spec to the public on their \"How to Join\" page. Also, I found an SD-Card block driver at www.blumba.de that might be useful to someone wanting to write an SDIO driver. Although, I don\'t know how legal writing an open source SDIO driver would be.

Anonymous · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2003, 11:30:46 am »

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I think they do have the capability for SDIO, but the problem is the driver. Apparently you have to pay $1000 a year to the SD Card Association at www.sdcard.org to be able to develop drivers.

I think it may be time to reengineer this darn thing. I really hate this closed spec stuff.

coder101 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 27, 2004, 02:08:48 pm »

BUMP
Did this ever get resolved? Is the Hardware there, but not the driver?

TonyOlsen · « **Reply #23 on:** April 27, 2004, 02:44:31 pm »

Are there any SD Wireless cards that aren\'t SDIO? Will any of the SD Wireless cards work on my SL-C860?

mussi · « **Reply #24 on:** April 27, 2004, 03:26:25 pm »

I\'m not completely inept at electronics (buh, if you\'re one, that\'s not really difficult). I have taken apart a few devices using Intel PXA stuff, especially the PXA2xx. If someone could publish or mail me high-resolution pictures of the PCB (upper and lower side), I might make an educated guess. The pinout of the PXA2xx chips is known, and from this, we might be able to find out. See http://www.intel.com/design/pca/applicatio...ls/27869401.pdf for the Intel manual on the PXA255.

Now we need somebody to take pictures of the C860 PCB....who wants to sacrifice his Z for \'science\'?

Of course, someone could still fake a connection and let it run into a dead end, or even use crippled PXA chips iof they order enough.

Foxdie · « **Reply #25 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:34:21 pm »

I\'ll debate with myself over the next 24 hours if it\'s worth taking my C760 apart to take the photo. I am pretty confident I can strip it down and reassemble it fine, but who wants to take such a risk with such an expensive device?

PS. Due to it\'s significance (who WOULDN\'T want SDIO??) I\'ve set this topic as sticky in the hope it\'ll grab peoples attentions to keep following it.

vishnja · « **Reply #26 on:** April 27, 2004, 05:41:47 pm »

I\'m definitely not able to put my Z together after having taken it apart, and I don\'t really want to send Foxdie up to the front - but I would like to have SDIO ;-)

jchung · « **Reply #27 on:** May 04, 2004, 09:52:58 am »

I have a C700 that has problems with the display ( the display is very faint.. but still there.. no backlight.. etc). I have taken apart the screen part of the cover but not the bottom...

If it would help I can take the bottom apart and take pictures. It will take a little bit because I would need to borrow my friend\'s camera.

let me know if you guys would want that.. I know it\'s only C700 with the PXA250 but maybe it would help

treke · « **Reply #28 on:** May 04, 2004, 12:09:14 pm »

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I definitively interested on this SDIO driver. Could please provide us with more details ?
Thanks in advance.

I spoke with the person in question again a couple weeks ago. The reason he never ended up releasing any of the work he did was due to possible legal concerns.

Foxdie · « **Reply #29 on:** May 04, 2004, 04:55:26 pm »

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I have a C700 that has problems with the display ( the display is very faint.. but still there.. no backlight.. etc). I have taken apart the screen part of the cover but not the bottom...

If it would help I can take the bottom apart and take pictures. It will take a little bit because I would need to borrow my friend\'s camera.

let me know if you guys would want that.. I know it\'s only C700 with the PXA250 but maybe it would help

High resolution and high quality photos of all the C series innards would probably be good

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Author Topic: Does the C860 have SDIO? (Read 89193 times)

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