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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:56:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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Subject: Re: How to get Soyo's K7V Dragon + smartcard reader working?
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You are not permitted to develop SDA readers, without violating patent
issues.  The protocol is psuedo ATA/ATAPI but a mix.  Linux can support
them but legally only via some direct access where application/user-space
does the work.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On 5 Apr 2002, ?lvaro Hern?ndez Tortosa wrote:

> I've ran through a lot of search trying to find out how to get it
> working. As you may already know, this smartcard reader comes
> 'out-of-the-box' with this socket A motherboard.
> 
> As long as it comes with a special cable which connects it directly to
> the motherboard, i'm not sure which kind of interface (e.g., is it pci,
> serial interface?) do i have to configure, or even if it has kernel
> support.
> 
> Anyone can point me to some useful documentation, resources or whatever?
> If there's no kernel support but technical docs, i'll consider to start
> developping that device driver.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alvaro Hernandez
> 
> 
> 
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