Talk:Ricoh R5C811

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Apparently, this page is confusing different chips. It needs to be clarified a bit, and either renamed, or a R5C8xx page made pointing to it.

The following chips *can* be used in a backwards compatible way in the electronic design (as long as you don't need one of the functions), and Lenovo might just do that depending on supplies:

R5C8x1: R5C811, R5C821, R5C841 (one slot).

R5C8x2: R5C812, R5C822, R5C842 (two slots).

The 81 series is the least capable of them, supporting MMC/SD/SDIO cards and MS/MSPRO memory sticks only.

The 82 series adds SmartCard support (no idea what that means).

The 84 series adds ExpressCard (USB-style) and xD picture card support plus two firewire ports. It removes "smartcard support".

My T43 2687-DDU shows a 0822 pci subdevice, but I am at a loss on how the ExpressCard was implemented (it should require a R5C84x, or it is tied directly to one of the three PCIe buses in the MCH).

Probably one cannot really know what Ricoh silcon one has without actually opening the ThinkPad and looking -- whatever shows up on the PCI list depends on which functions are active, and as ExpressCard seems to be implemented the USB way, it might show up as a USB device in the EHCI USB bus when a card is plugged :(