From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 6 02:56:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA17653 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 02:56:47 -0800 Received: from dkuug.dk (dkuug.dk [193.88.44.89]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA17637 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 02:56:27 -0800 Received: from kmd-ac.dk by dkuug.dk with UUCP id AA07365 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for freebsd.org!hackers); Fri, 6 Jan 1995 11:56:03 +0100 Message-Id: <199501061056.AA07365@dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: sio.c, wd.c, if_ed.c & PCMCIA To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 11:25:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199501060944.BAA02736@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 6, 95 01:44:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1623 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time ..