We'll be glad to donate a nell board to the cause, just tell us where and
when.  :)

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David C. Myers wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've just got one of these SBus-based PCMCIA readers.  What needs to
> > be done on the driver?  I notice that simply inserting a card causes a
> > panic...
> >
> > So:
> >
> > 1) Is anyone working on a driver?
> >
> > 2) Are there any reference materials on the chipsets used in this
> > device?
> >
> 	I believe pk wrote the driver working from some tech docs, but
> 	without access to the hardware.
> 
> > 3) Anything I need to know in general -- something like, oh, there'd
> > have to be a major kernel overhaul to support insertions/removes...?
> >
> > 4) How do I specify which PCMCIA drivers should be included in my
> > kernel?
> >
> 	edit your /sys/arch/sparc/conf/XXX file before config.
> 
> > 5) What about this mysterious warning... "kernel panics if audioamd is
> > also configured"?
> 
> 	As far as I know, nell uses the same interrupt level as audioamd,
> 	and the kernel does not currently support that sharing.
> 
> 	I no longer have access to a box with a nell, and I didn't really
> 	get to do anything useful with it while I had, but I know there
> 	will be some others out there who would love a working driver :)
> 
> 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
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