Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
To: Dan Poler <dpoler@recycled.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/09/2000 00:29:14
Bummer :( - anyone havs docs?
David/absolute
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Dan Poler wrote:
> I'm fairly certain that the Tadpole uses someting other than nell for its
> PCMCIA bridge.
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> Dan
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> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:05:18 +0100 (BST)
> > From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> > To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
> > Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, James Sharp wrote:
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> > > > 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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