Subject: Re: pcmcia support on sparcbooks
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Michael M Delaney <mmdst23+@pitt.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/08/2000 19:51:27
ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/pub/pdf/s3gxtrmb.pdf is the hardware manual, I'm
looking throught it right now, might not be that usefull.  If its not,
check their other manuals in /pdf
hope this helps
Mike

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

>  Bummer :( - anyone havs docs?
> 
>                 David/absolute
>           -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
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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:
> > 
> > > 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
> > >           -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
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