On Monday 25 April 2005 20:03, Andrew wrote:
> --- In "Jesse Off" <> wrote:
> > Ok, I commited more work for the TS-7200 to NetBSD-current today and was
> > able to write drivers/test existing support for the following new
> > peripherals:
>
> [..snip..]
>
> > * PC/104 PCMCIA controllers. Successfully tested a third-party PC/104
> > card today. Technologic Systems does not sell these, but they are
> > available from other sources.
This message is from NetBSD 4 or so months ago (IIRC).
>
> Is there support for PC/104 PCMCIA controllers on Linux?
No. The PCMCIA support (and all ISA peripheral support for that matter) for
the TS-7200 on NetBSD was gotten "for free" by implementing an ISA bus
driver. On Linux a mostly original driver would have to be written/tested
for the controller and (most likely) drivers for each PCMCIA device would
need tweaking as well. Also, the device I tested on NetBSD supported PCMCIA
only, not CARDBUS. CARDBUS requires PCI and a good number of so-called
PCMCIA cards are actually CARDBUS.
> Or is there
> support for mini-PCI controllers on either NetBSD or Linux?
mini-PCI is really PCI in a different form factor. Both Linux and NetBSD
support PCI, but the ep93xx processor has no built-in PCI bus. Really about
the only way you could get PCI on this particular board is if you synthesized
an ISA->PCI bridge in an FPGA. The driver wouldn't be too bad to implement
under NetBSD, but I would be a little afraid of having to implement such a
thing under Linux/ARM.
>
> We need a powerful 802.11b card for use with TS-7250. Unfortunately,
> USB models are weak. PCMCIA and mini-PCI are much better.
//Jesse Off
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