Toshiba ToPIC developer info

David Hinds dhinds at sonic.net
Wed Jun 22 12:13:27 EDT 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:58:15PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> 
> Ok, this now appears to allow Cardbus cards to work.  Unfortunately the
> 16-bit card doesn't work unless the BIOS is set to PCIC Compatible mode,
> which means I can't use a Cardbus and 16-bit card at the same time as
> with 2.4 and pcmcia-cs.  I also need mem=64M so that I can use uncached
> RAM as slram device.

Some, possibly all, ToPIC bridges do not respect the CardBus power
control register settings when a 16-bit card is present; you must use
the ExCA power control register for 16-bit cards.  The Yenta driver
uses the CardBus power control register for all cards, 16-bit and
32-bit.

-- Dave



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