2.6.x kernels & PCI-to-PCMCIA bridges [again]

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Apr 24 21:28:25 BST 2004


On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:17:28PM +0300, jar wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> 
> > Well, it seems that this is a dead loss, so I guess we're never going
> > to get the PD6729 driver supported.  Sorry people.
> > 
> > (And please don't raise bug reports for this - because it *isn't* a
> > bug.)
> 
> Looks bad. How about porting the PCI parts from David Hinds
> i82365 driver (external pcmcia package) to the 2.6 kernel?
> 
> Off topic:
> If not, do I have any other alternatives? Does anybody know if any
> of the *BSD Unixes support the PD6729 chip? Or is it really so that
> the ms windows is the only OS which can support the PD6729?

Well, the alternative is someone else could pick up the driver and
fix up the review comments.  If someone's interested, let me know.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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