From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 27 10:29:31 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 832D537B61F for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:29:27 -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 f8RHTNu49856; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:29:24 -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 f8RHTM774997; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:29:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200109271729.f8RHTM774997@harmony.village.org> To: "Brian Finlandia" Subject: Re: status of 3com 575 in 4.4-release? Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:03:21 EDT." References: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:29:22 -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 "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