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Re: PCMCIA broken (was Re: no ndis* at cardbus?)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:35:44PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <1234379751.836836.989.nullmailer%galant.ukfsn.org@localhost>,
> Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost> wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> >
> >> As said, CompactFlash works for me. Seems I'm just lucky.
> >
> >Although I didn't have 5.0 on my old laptop (Tecra 8100 - dmesg is on
> >wiki) it worked fine there with a pre-branch -current. It barely boots now
> >(and I've wiped the disk) but I can set it up for testing with a bunch of
> >kernels on CD if required.
> >
> >> plunky%rya-online.net@localhost said:
> >> > RBUS_IO_BASE = 0x4000 # default, does not work
> >> > RBUS_IO_BASE = 0x0a00 # works.
> >>
> >> Perhaps there is some problem with incomplete decoding?
> >> The i386 CARDBUS config file suggests 0x600 btw.
> >
> >32-bit cards seem to work normally with GENERIC anyway and I tried that
> >CARDBUS config but found no change with the 16-bit ones.
> >
> >I took the 0x0a00 value from PRs kern/32327 and kern/32328 (and, all over
> >the internet when searching for RBUS_IO_BASE :), which also suggests
> >reducing RBUS_IO_SIZE and that worked fine for the 16-bit cards but both
> >32-bit cards paniced the machine in that case (from "cbb0: <rbus> no bus
> >space")
> >
>
> Well, I think that 0x4000 used to work before the rbus cleanup that
> Andy did. Perhaps a bug sneaked in then?
I haven't touched rbus in 8+ years.
Andrew
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