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    [PATCH] sd: initialize SD cards · 335eadf2
    Pierre Ossman authored
    Support for the Secure Digital protocol in the MMC layer.
    
    A summary of the legal issues surrounding SD cards, as understood by yours
    truly:
    
    Members of the Secure Digital Association, hereafter SDA, are required to sign
    a NDA[1] before given access to any specifications.  It has been speculated
    that including an SD implementation would forbid these members to redistribute
    Linux.  This is the basic problem with SD support so it is unclear if it even
    is a problem since it has no effect on those of us that aren't members.
    
    The SDA doesn't seem to enforce these rules though since the patches included
    here are based on documentation made public by some of the members.  The most
    complete specs[2] are actually released by Sandisk, one of the founding
    companies of the SDA.
    
    Because of this the NDA is considered a non-issue by most involved in the
    discussions concerning these patches.  It might be that the SDA is only
    interested in protecting the so called "secure" bits of SD, which so far
    hasn't been found in any public spec.  (The card is split into two sections,
    one "normal" and one "secure" which has an access scheme similar to TPM:s).
    
    (As a side note, Microsoft is working to make things easier for us since they
    want to be able to include the source code for a SD driver in one of their
    development kits.  HP is making sure that the new NDA will allow a Linux
    implementation.  So far only the SDIO specs have been opened up[3].  More will
    hopefully follow.)
    
     [1] http://www.sdcard.org/membership/images/ippolicy.pdf
     [2] http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/ProdManualSDCardv1.9.pdf
     [3] http://www.sdcard.org/sdio/Simplified%20SDIO%20Card%20Specification.pdf
    
    
    
    This patch contains the central parts of the SD support.  If no MMC cards are
    found on a bus then the MMC layer proceeds looking for SD cards.  Helper
    functions are extended to handle the special needs of SD cards.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
    Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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