Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:29:22 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Brian Finlandia" <fbsdmoz@hotmail.com> Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of 3com 575 in 4.4-release? Message-ID: <200109271729.f8RHTM774997@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:03:21 EDT." <F101mZDmNLkRYfrHgYr00008b13@hotmail.com> References: <F101mZDmNLkRYfrHgYr00008b13@hotmail.com>
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In message <F101mZDmNLkRYfrHgYr00008b13@hotmail.com> "Brian Finlandia" writes: : : >: Since cardbus card support seems to be unlikely in the near future, I : >: wonder if there would be support for porting OpenBSD's cardbus "hack" : >into : >: freebsd for the time being? At least then we could use our cards in 16 : >bit : >: mode. : > : >No. You misunderstand OpenBSD's hack. You can't run CardBus cards in : >some magic "16-bit" mode and have them work without the cardbus : >infrastructure. : : Well I certainly have developed a tendency to misunderstand things lately. : But regardless of whether it's a magic "16-bit" mode or not, it does seem : to work and be fairly stable. I know the OpenBSD code. Their CardBus support isn't a hack. They have all the infrastructure in place. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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