From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 5 17:52:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28378 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:52:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28358 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:52:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00618; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:16:03 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711060146.MAA00618@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , Nate Williams , Warner Losh , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Libretto 50 - US Version and PAO In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 15:26:05 BST." <995.878739965@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 12:16:02 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Well, from looking at the current pcic driver sources I can't see how a > >mapped-at-zero card could work with what we have. That would tend to > >imply to me that while they are supported by the CIS design, there > >ain't too many of them around. > > true, but you have to support them anyway to be "compliant" :-( Uh, do we care? Given the way the PCMCIA people feel about money, I can't see us pursuing any sort of "certification" from them, and if mapped-at-zero cards are a real rarity that's responsible for a great deal of our pain, I can think of some pretty explicit things we should be doing to our support for them. > >How far off the mark am I? And is there a decent, non-expensive, > >reference to the CIS structure anywhere? > > Not really. I paid a small fortune for my copy of the badly written > standard :-( Ouch. (The comment, I know it's grossly overpriced.) mike