Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:23:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard and -current Message-ID: <19990714162303.48297@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907132220.QAA50120@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 04:20:02PM -0600 References: <199907132220.QAA50120@harmony.village.org>
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On Tuesday, 13 July 1999 at 16:20:02 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I'm trying to find out what, exactly, the status of pccard is on
> -current. Since I've had my head in some experimental code for a long
> time, I no longer have a good feel for these things. Since this
> experimental code is going to take a while, I'd like to try to address
> whatever issues are currently present in the code. I've spent the
> better part of 4 hours this afternoon getting a good tree together. I
> have a good kernel, but need to do a build world, I think.
>
> My guess is that old drivers are working, but new-bus drivers (fdc and
> sio) are not. Is that the case?
>
> Also, are there any objections to my placing more explicit error
> messages for failure modes in pccardd/pccard,pcic drivers?
None whatsoever!
> I have added some locally (which got me to the point of realizing I
> needed a make buildworld).
Yes, I've done that too. I'll dig them out and send them to you.
> pccardd's error reporting on plain old FreeBSD has
> always been too oracular ("yes" or "no" w/o explaination) for my
> tastes.
Agreed.
Greg
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