Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 20:22:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time to retire PC Card (but not CardBus) Message-ID: <CANCZdfpZtq8mhUZL=hhuw14kaifXC0hWZbxqtNpV4Wyq8v3GqQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190527194645.f1942efa17cbeb1646181dd7@j.email.ne.jp> References: <CANCZdfqWSR7XqyfEv3M=UTa%2BBoNeU7vbL=5yA2ZBiqs%2BxruOwQ@mail.gmail.com> <20190527194645.f1942efa17cbeb1646181dd7@j.email.ne.jp>
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16 bit PC Cards have a smooth metal by the connector while 32 bit ones have a coppery bumpy grounding strip by the connector. Warner On Mon, May 27, 2019, 5:47 PM Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I have a couple of PCMCIA cards and/or bus. > How do I check? > > Thanks, > Hiro > > On Thu, 23 May 2019 18:34:46 -0600 > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Now that a number of 16-bit drivers have been retired, I think it's time > to > > retire 16-bit PC Card / PCMCIA cards. The 32-bit CardBus cards are still > > alive and kicking, but the need for 16-bit PC Cards has passed. It's time > > to retire it. > > > > I've floated this idea before, and there was broad support for it. I've > > held off until after FCP 101 deprecation was playing out. We've not > pushed > > that into the tree. This is the logical next step. FreeBSD 12.x will be > the > > last release with 16-bit PC Card support. > > > > My plan is to add deprecation notices to the remaining PC Card drivers, > > merge those back to FreeBSD 11 and 12. Once that's done, I plan on > removing > > the 16-bit support. I have a few minor bug fixes to that which I'll push > in > > before I retire it, and merge those fixes. > > > > My plan is to give about a month for the community to discuss this plan > > before I add the warnings. If there's resistance, we'll go with more > formal > > data collection and deprecation. If there's none, I'll go ahead. > > > > This affects the following drivers: an, cmx, fdc, puc, uart, wi, bt3c, > ata. > > > > Warner > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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