I didn't see an ASIC gate layout (I'd love to get my hand on that
actaully, just out of curosity), but there is a memory map, list of
registers, and other usefull-looking things in the manual
(Technical Guide (3gx.pdf)
http://hw.tadpole.com/html/support/manuals/#SPARCbook ).  I'm not totally
sure if it's all the information needed, but it could be, I haven't done
any PCMCIA work outside of some Linux bootloader support for the SuperH at
an old job.  I can't say for sure that I'll have time to play with it over
the summer (I doubt I will be able until then, I have a big design
project), but someone may be able too.  Is there a good
book/guide/something on NetBSD drivers avilable?  Don Anderson wrote a
good book called PCMCIA System Architecture (possibly out of print) that
may be helpfull to anyone wanting to work on this who isn't familer with
PCMCIA.

Mike

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, David Laight wrote:

> > I've bene looking through the archives and have seen that pcmcia was
> > ebing worked on... is it still? I think the person doing the most work
> > was Erik Berls.
> > 
> > Is there anyhting that can be done to help?- granting that writing code
> > is probably not going to be happening at this point in my netbsd
> > learning curve.  I've got a pair of 3GX machines and it would satisfy a
> > LOT of years long desire to be able to run wireless on them. 
> 
> IIRC the learning curve is steeper than you think!
> There are no accurate specs (except the ASIC gate layout) for the
> pcmcia controller on at least one of the Tadpole boards, so
> getting it working is 'interesting'.
> 
> 	David
> 
> -- 
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>