From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 6 23:03:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA17076 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 23:03:18 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA17066 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 23:03:17 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA07527; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 23:03:11 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501070703.XAA07527@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Dear Terry... To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 23:03:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9501061831.AA20067@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 6, 95 11:31:29 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1449 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > You need to get a copy of the standards documents. This will be $120 (I > think that's what I paid -- I may have it confused with the $80 I paid > for the PCI documentation) if the company you work for is a member of the > consortium, more (up to twice that) if not. They also have dummy cards > and architectural overviews available. > > You also need to get a copy of the Intel and IBM databooks. There are Sometimes I can't help it, I get these weird ideas... When I read this email I felt like a Roman emperor, on my march of triumph through Rome, and while my heart swells with pride I have this slave wispering in my ear: "remember cesar, thou art mortal!" (look it up!) Well, I just wanted to say thanks! Sometimes we need a devils advocate ! regarding PCMCIA. I personally think that the PCMCIA spec suffers from needless generality. My plan is to implement the things we actually want to have, as opposed to things we might want to be able to do some day. That means that I will be looking for a simple framework and a lightweight implementation. The single most popular cards will be modems, ethers, disks and possibly SCSIs. I am somewhat interested in execute_in_place from a FLASH card too, but apart from that, I don't really plan to carry it further. Have a nice weekend! -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)