Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
To: Dan Poler <dpoler@recycled.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/09/2000 00:29:14
	Bummer :( - anyone havs docs?

                David/absolute
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Dan Poler wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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:
> > 
> > >  > 	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)
> > 
> >                 David/absolute
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