From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 17 13:25:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24738 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24724 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 13:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA23040; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:25:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA26967; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:25:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:25:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199801172125.OAA26967@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), gdicus@nomadix.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Cards and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199801091656.IAA27652@crab.whistle.com> References: <199801091234.XAA00394@word.smith.net.au> <199801091656.IAA27652@crab.whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > | > +pcic: controller I/O address 0x3e0 > | > +Card inserted, slot 0 > | > | The 'card inserted' message is printed as a result of a pcic interrupt, > | so the pcic itself is interrupting OK. So far so good. > > Well, that's not true. The pcic is polled via a timer and does not register > the interrupt with the driver. Actually, the PCIC *is* registered with the driver, but it also polled via a timer. I'd like to remove the polling if an interrupt is registered, but simply haven't committed the (very simple) fix. > I ran into this when I was playing with a > CL-PD6832 eval card in which ISA interrupts did not work (they still don't > but, I've been in crissis mode with other stuff). Apparently windows does > the same type of thing. Apparently the interrupt mechanism of pcic's are > not very useful. Really? I've had no problems on my test boxes... Nate