Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 11:25:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" <sos@kmd-ac.dk> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio.c, wd.c, if_ed.c & PCMCIA Message-ID: <199501061056.AA07365@dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199501060944.BAA02736@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 6, 95 01:44:20 am
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> I have been studying rather heavily the last three weeks and belive I have
> the PCMCIA understood now. I have looked at the Linux stuff and I have read
> a couple of books on the subject (All the ones I have been able to find: two).
>
> I have a prototype running now, which will detect and configure my Megahertz
> modem or my Infomover correctly on boot. The next step is to make it work
> when the cards are swapped.
>
> I think I have a workable architecture worked out. I will present this to
> Soren in person this weekend, and if he doesn't send me to the "National
> Home Of The Recursively Bewildered", I will write a architectural paper
> on it and post it here during next week.
We'll see about that :)
> It requires some architectural changes which may or may not come for free
> with the devfs, the main problems being the way the "softc" structure is
> identified from the dev_t and power-management.
>
> If any major rewrites are planned for any of the drivers listed in the
> subject, or for any other "PCMCIAble" device drivers, we should get the
> PCMCIA support into it at the same time, so gimme a buzz before you
> redesign any of them.
>
> If you are PCMCIA interested, could you send me a list of the PCMCIA devices
> and computers you have ?
ChemBook 486DX based laptop
National InfoMover netcard
USRobotics 14.4 fax/data modem
Very interested in getting this to work....
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time
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