I’ve just written an article about running Linux on the Dell XPS m1330 laptop. It’s long and should have lasting value (I hope!) so I didn’t type it into this blog entry. Instead it’s available here. The quick summary is that I think it’s a great laptop and Linux runs really well on it. Bravo […]
I managed to find a few minutes and put together the promised patch series for the latest n800 firmware. This series adds support for MMC 4.x wide-bus support and restores 48MHz highspeed support. I did some basic testing with my n800 and confirmed that transfer speeds are now back to what they were with my […]
As promised last weekend, here are the results of my investigations into the latest kernel in the 2007.26-8 kernel. As I previously observed, the transfer speed is capped at 24MHz even though the device is capable of operating at 48MHz. This cuts the maximum transfer rate of high-speed SD and MMC cards. Apparently this was […]
I’ve been on holiday for the last week and a half, so I missed the firmware update while I was away, but I’m sure most of you are aware that a new firmware for the n800 is out and that is includes SDHC support. This means that you don’t need a custom kernel with my […]
Unsurprisingly, people have been pretty anxious to get an updated SDHC enabled kernel for the latest n800 firmware release…
Since my last post with my updated n800 kernel, I’ve spent some time looking at a troublesome MMC card – it’s a Transcend 4GB MMCplus card…
Alright then. As promised earlier, I’ve got a pre-built replacement kernel for the n800 which adds support for MMC 4 and SDHC cards.
When it comes to hardware support, we often find ourselves confronted with statements that such-and-such a piece of hardware can’t be used to its full capability under linux or feature ‘X’ isn’t supported yet…