From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 9 18:38:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3941E37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9A1cbu09103; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:38:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9A1ca770658; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:38:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200110100138.f9A1ca770658@harmony.village.org> To: Benjamin Close Subject: Re: GENERIC or NEWCARD Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:15:30 +0930." <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> References: <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:38:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> Benjamin Close writes: : Hi All, : Could someone please explain the main difference between using a : GENERIC kernel and a NEWCARD kernel. I'm using -current and continually : debate which is the correct one to use on my laptop. (Dell Inspiron : 8000). GENERIC uses the pccard implementation that we introduced in the 2.x time frame, that PAO improve and that we merged most of their changes back into FreeBSD. It uses a userland configuration tool (pccardd) to read the card meta data, tell the kernel which device to use and run scripts upon successful attachment. It only supports 16-bit cards. NEWCARD uses the pccard framework ported from newconfig, which ported it from NetBSD, with infusions from NetBSD. It supports 16 and 32 bit cards. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message