Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:50:10 +0900 | From | Clemens Schwaighofer <> | Subject | Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x |
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Pavel Machek wrote: | Hi! | | |>|>| PCMCIA... well, that's another obsolete technology. Too bad. |>|> |>|>PCMCIA is obsolete? Did I miss something, or was this a joke? |>| |>| |>| Obsoleted by cardbus, I believe. (cardbus cards look like PCMCIA |>| cards, but electrical protocol is different) Plus, as someone else |>| noted, stuff moves into mainboard. USB also replacs part of what |>| PCMCIA was for. |> |>hmm, I didn't know that there is a change from PCMCIA to cardbus. |>Thought still there are lot of pcmcia stuff around. wlan cards, eg my |>dial up card (CF card into a PCMCIA adapter). Well I wouldn't abandon |>PCMCIA so fast. At least the linux kernel is know for beeing able to use |>very old hardware in a very good way ... | | | Yes, pcmcia still survives in form of compactflash, mostly used by | low-powered handhelds etc. That's where ISA survives too.
well and low-powered handhelds are one field where linux should run :) at least on my zaurus its running happily [okay this doesn't have a pcmcia slot, just an sd/card and cf/card]
| I agree that supporting PCMCIA is usefull, and that linux should run | on old hardware; but you can see that PCMCIA and APM is in "old | hardware" category, along with ISA, Pentium I CPUs and serial ports.
Well I wouldn't put PCMCIA into the same part as ISA and Pentium I, because my 2 year old Sonylaptop with a Pentium-M 4 1.5Ghz has PCMCIA slots ... So its not like it is found only on stone old Laptops.
| Linux still tries to support 386 cpus, and its right. However its not | same level of support as modern hardware.
yeah but its very rare to find 386 (except perhaps junkyards), but its very common to find PCMCIA. way more easy than Pentium I or ISA slots ...
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