Re: [ECOS] PCMCIA ethernet driver package

["AL Chane" <al_chane at issc dot com dot tw>]

The platform I have is an NS-Geode CPU with a PCMCIA card (thru PC104
interface)
I'd like to try to put an i386 platform pcmcia driver, but don't know how to
start exactly.

1. Should I just follow those pcmcia supports for ARM SA1110? Leave the
generic pcmcia
support (io/pcmcia/pcmcia.c & pcmcia.h) unchanged and create a .c file
similiar to
cerf_pcmcia.c, ipaq_pcmcia.c...etc. ? Does Card Service for Linux help?

2. How do I define those  SA1110_BCR_CF_POWER, SA1110_CF_DETECT...etc and
    Board Control Register function  found in ipaq_pcmcia.c corresponding to
i386 platform?
    What hardware information do I need?

3. Does pcmcia controller matter? i got a VADEM VG-468

thanks a lot for the helps

AL



> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 01:59, AL Chane wrote:
> > Has anyone tried PCMCIA ethernet driver package? I tired this package
> > on an i386 target. No errors on building library. But errors showed when
> > complile
> > with an application.
> >
> > Does eCos support for PCMCIA on i386?
>
> Not currently.  PCMCIA support (like many of the device drivers)
> is split into generic and platform specific portions.  There is
> no platform specific driver for the PC (partly because there are
> so many and we never needed them for what we did).  To get the
> PCMCIA *anything* to work on a PC, you'll have to write the platform
> driver stuff for it.  It's not hard - just the details that describe
> things like how to address the slots, turning on the power, etc.
>
> Sadly the only documentation is in the drivers themselves.  Look
> at devs/pcmcia/... for the platform details and io/pcmcia/... for
> how the generic driver interacts with them.
>
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