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RE: PC Card Specification 2.01 - (off topic)
- To: "'Lewin A.R.W. Edwards'" <larwe at larwe dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] PC Card Specification 2.01 - (off topic)
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:28:46 -0600
- Cc: "'eCos'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
eCos is definitely the way to go. We are creating a product based off
of the EDB7111-2 board. It's a one time thing requiring PCMCIA support.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [mailto:larwe@larwe.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 3:08 PM
> To: Trenton D. Adams
> Cc: 'eCos'
> Subject: RE: [ECOS] PC Card Specification 2.01 - (off topic)
>
>
>
> >That's completely pathetic. All standards should be free.
>
> What exactly are you trying to do? It is quite possible to
> design a PCMCIA
> system (hardware and software) without the official specification
> documents; there is a lot of information implicitly buried in chip
> datasheets and other sources.
>
> BTW, if you are working with any but a controlled set of
> PCMCIA devices, I
> suggest that eCos might not be the correct OS for this
> application; it's
> easier to ride the free (and ongoingly-updated) PCMCIA
> support in Linux.
> This comment does not apply if you intend only to support
> generic devices
> like modems and PCMCIA-ATA storage devices, or if you intend
> to support
> only one or two specific cards for which you will write drivers.
>
>
> -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards
> Embedded Engineer, Digi-Frame Inc.
> Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
> Tel (914) 937-4090 9am-6:30pm M-F ET
> Personal: http://www.larwe.com/ http://www.zws.com/
>
> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
> triumphs, even
> though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who
> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the
> gray twilight
> that knows not victory nor defeat."
> (Theodore Roosevelt)
>
>