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    SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
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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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