Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/08/2000 23:05:18
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, James Sharp wrote:

>  > 	I believe a driver for was written based on the docs, but noone
>  > 	with time and ability to work on the code had access to the
>  > 	hardware. Once the pcmcia driver is working then all of the
>  > 	pcmcia cards supported by NetBSD should just work.
>  
> I've got a 3GX running NetBSD I'll be willing to test software on.
> 
	A good start might be to uncomment nell in and try to compile
	a current kernel.

	AFAIK there are two issues
	a) It conflicts with the IRQ for audio
	b) It doesn't actually probe cards (though detects inserts)

                David/absolute
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