Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:08:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The normal built-in IDE driver can obviously driev the hardware. If the > _only_ thing we did in kernel space was some very simple cardbus logic > (PCI-only, detect the cardbus chip, query it for devices, and handle the > special cases that we care about), I bet it wouldn't be more than a few kB > worth of driver.
For PCMCIA this partly exists. We have this feature (what DOS calls a point enabler I believe) in the Psion5 palmtop port. Werner Almesberger has much of this to hand. It also has a generic power management framework which may be good to adopt.
Alan
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