Garrett D'Amore ???:
>I'm now looking elsewhere at our code, and finding that we have a custom >cardbus stack, but not just that, but also custom pcmcia even for our >older 16-bit platforms. > >I'd like to evaluate how hard it would be to integrate support for the >chips we use (Cirrus Logic PD6832 in this particular case, though we use >other, more modern cardbus bridges in other platforms) into the >OpenSolaris cardbus stack. > > the cardbus stack on opensolaris supports bridges from TI, Toshiba, O2micro, Ricoh(we have tested) and maybe some type Cirrus logic(we have not tested). since almost all the cardbus bridges from the same vendor are compatible, so many modern cardbus bridges are potentially supported(at least till now we have not found any new cardbus bridges which are not supported). We have no Cirbus logic cardbus bridge in our hand and have no spec for the hardware, so we can not support that kind of chip. If you have them in your hand, I think it is quite easy for you to add support on it. Since I did this releated part in the cardbus driver, I am sure only some registers for interrupt routing and mode setting are needed to set. >The fact that the stack is released as binary-only makes it hard for me >to do that. > > the cardbus stack on opensolaris is release as both binary and src. they are all included here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/cardbus-0.3-bin.tar.gz >This also complicates being able to use pcan or pcwl on our platforms, >owing to the dependency these have on the new cardbus stack. > >Sorry for all the noise on this list of late, but I'm just now getting >fully spun back up on Solaris on our laptops, and I want to do >everything possible to make Solaris run as well as it can on them, and, >quite honestly, I'd like to be able to share that with other users. >Frankly, its somewhat likely that there is a lot of overlap between >Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/x86/amd64 for some of this stuff. :-) > > Solaris brings you good experience always. -Brian
