using SD card on Broadcom 4709 eval board

[Paul Bolle]

On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 14:46 -0800, Abu Rasheda wrote:
> I have been trying to use SD card on Broadcom's 4709 eval board. Linux
> kernel tree provided with SDK seems to have few SDIO drivers, but non
> of them seems to be working or more accurately, loading them does not
> list device in /proc/devices, so I can create block file to mount it.
> 
> After googling and searching through Linux kernel tree, it seems like
> B43_SDIO is correct option to turn on, since the controller seems to
> be on the Broadcom CPU (4709) process itself (am I correct ?).
> 
> So if B43_SDIO is correct option, I have not been able to turn it on
> (when running make menuconfig). as it is not showing up.
> 
> depends on B43 && SSB_SDIOHOST_POSSIBLE && EXPERIMENTAL,

EXPERIMENTAL was removed in v3.9. So this concerns a pre-v3.9 tree?

> off the above B43 is only shows up in arch/ppc,

You mean you can only set B43 if configuring for ARCH=ppc?

>  which does not make
> sense, as this CPU is arm based.
> 
> Any guidance will be appreciated.


Paul Bolle