I'm fairly certain that the Tadpole uses someting other than nell for its
PCMCIA bridge.

Dan

On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:05:18 +0100 (BST)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
> Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
> 
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, James Sharp wrote:
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> >  > 	I believe a driver for was written based on the docs, but noone
> >  > 	with time and ability to work on the code had access to the
> >  > 	hardware. Once the pcmcia driver is working then all of the
> >  > 	pcmcia cards supported by NetBSD should just work.
> >  
> > I've got a 3GX running NetBSD I'll be willing to test software on.
> > 
> 	A good start might be to uncomment nell in and try to compile
> 	a current kernel.
> 
> 	AFAIK there are two issues
> 	a) It conflicts with the IRQ for audio
> 	b) It doesn't actually probe cards (though detects inserts)
> 
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