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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:06 +0000
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@gmail.com>
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To: Robert Emanuele <rob@emanuele.us>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SDIO Stack and Device Support
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Robert Emanuele wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm trying to find out more information about the status of an SDIO
> stack and SDIO devices in the kernel.  I see under drivers/mmc/ some
> SDIO support.
>
> I'm evaluating the potential of getting a Wireless SDIO card to work
> with the 2.6 kernel.  So far all I see in the kernel is support for an
> SDIO UART.  There is a patch on sourceforge for an SDIO stack and
> drivers from Atheros but that is for 2.6.18.  Is there current support
> for other SDIO wireless devices in the kernel?
>   
There is pretty good support for the Marvell chips (sd8686 etc) in the
mainline
kernel. Take a look under drivers/net/wireless/libertas/

I've also copied in the linux-wireless list.