Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:15:14 -0500 From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com>, "'Scott Mitchell'" <rsm@acm.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility list Message-ID: <199903102315.SAA25894@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:54:09 %2B0100." <32961.921095649@critter.freebsd.dk>
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I know that everyone on the core team would be *ecstatic* if good PCCard support would show up from contributors. I've looked at the problems on my own laptop and there are some that I could fix, but it seems like there is a major lack of architectural guidance preventing people like me offering fixes. What I mean by this is possibly best illustrated by example: My system has two cardbus controllers, and the docking module has one PCcard controller. The probe code *sees* these, but it has a lot of hard-coded assumptions that are obviously wrong preventing me from using the PCcard controller in the docking module. Still, lacking some architectural guidance, any change I make would be just as wrong, I think. Likewise, I don't remember if it was Mike or Nate, but someone who knows thinks the current FBSD PCCard design is superior to that in PAO, and I think I agree, but without a "leader" how can we flesh this out and make it work as well as PAO does now? Isn't a problem that there is no "connected" person calling the "architectural" shots? Certainly there isn't any documentation we can reference that I've found, on the FBSD pccard architecture. -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 978 916 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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