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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Nate Williams <nate@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/isa if_ep.c if_epreg.h
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> nate        96/06/14 15:11:44
> 
>   Modified:    sys/i386/isa  if_ep.c if_epreg.h
>   Log:
>   At long last, we know have support for the 3C589 in a FreeBSD release
>   using the existing files using the existing PCCARD support.

Ugh, that's an ugly sentence.  In any case, what I meant to say was that
up till now the Nomad release has been using the 'if_nep.c' driver
instead of the existing if_ep.c driver, which was bogus IMHO.  Both
drivers supported the same cards (although I think if_ep supported
more), so why should we add another driver which does the same thing.

I asked Hosokawa to see if anyone would do patches to if_ep, and
apparently someone did because in the most recent Nomad release there
were patches to add PCCARD support to the already existing if_ep.c
driver.

Right now, aside from 'bugs' the entire framework should be in place to
support almost all PC-CARDS.  There are still some 'high-level' design
issues to be resolved such as 'how do you boot off a PC-CARD disk'
(currently you can't because you can't recognize the disk unless you
have the user-land daemon running) which basically suggest that we move
some of the userland code into the kernel (yuck!), but you get the idea.

I'm planning on revamping the PC-CARD hooks in /etc next now that I have
another hard disk and can use the code on my default box.

Off to go fishing now!


Nate