[openbeos] Re: PCMCIA & Cardbus
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:41:00 +0200
Selon Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> linus@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Would I be correct in guessing that Haiku lacks both a PCMCIA and the
> > extended 32bit Cardbus module?
>
> We don't have any support for these right now, yes.
>
> > Anyone working on one? Anyone know if it's similar to PCI?
> > PCI isn't even there yet, is it?
>
> PCI is there, just not complete (it doesn't allocate the resources yet,
> IOW it's just as incomplete as the one in BeOS).
>
> > Anyways.. I'm developing on a laptop right now.. with a 10mbit
> > network
> > card.. went out to get a 100mbit card without dongle.. but all the
> > stores
> > 'round here only have cardbus cards.. so I guess i'll have to either
> > order
> > a PCMCIA card from somewhere, or dive into development..
> >
> > But before I do anything, I just wanted to know how much of a
> > nightmare
> > it would be to write support for cardbus for R5 (and Haiku, later
> > on). And
> > if the cardbus cards work just like 16bit cards, only 32bit?
>
> I've no idea about that, but I am almost sure you can find some stuff
> on the net about this.
> It will be easier to support features like hot-plugging in Haiku than
> it is in BeOS, but that shouldn't stop you :)
>
R5 uses a port of the Linux Pcmcia Services.
Shamely, Be never published the port, so we'll have to do it again.
AFAIK cardbus is only a system to fake PCI devices from pcmcia.
François.
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