HEADS UP: OLDCARD to go away

[Cesar Mello]

My problem is different, no pccard is detected when using GENERIC or NEWCARD.

I have an old Toshiba Portege 300CT and it works great with 5.3-OLDCARD.

I'm interested in helping so that these 16-bit cards continue
supported in release 6. I don't want to switch to Linux only because
of this.

Best regards!
Cesar


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:10:40 -0700 (MST), M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <41EF6A90.1010101 at acm.org>
>             Dave Walton <dwalton at acm.org> writes:
> : On 8 Nov 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> :  >
> :  > I'm in the process of flushing my last few changes into OLDCARD
> :  > (mostly pccard.conf entries).  Once that's complete, I'll be removing
> :  > OLDCARD from head, likely early next week.
> :
> : Now that that has happened, where does that leave support for my
> : Thinkpad 770Z for versions after 5.3-R?
> 
> 5.x will continue to support it.  NEWCARD will have to pickup the
> ball and support the old ISA devices it has better.
> 
> : As near as I can figure, my problem is that my chipset, which works as
> : pcic in OLDCARD, is somehow not fully supported as cbb in GENERIC.  Can
> : someone who understands this low-level stuff please let me know whether
> : cbb has been (or will be) improved to work here?  As it stands now, I'm
> : afraid to cvsup -STABLE, leaving me permanently stuck at 5.3-R.
> 
> The TI 1251 is fully supported.  If it isn't working for you, then
> there are other issues at work that need to be solved.  I've used the
> 1251 with cbb.
> 
> : With GENERIC, I see this:
> : cbb0: <TI1251 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x50103000-0x50103fff irq 11 at
> : device 2.0 on pci0
> : cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
> : pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
> : cbb1: <TI1251 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x50102000-0x50102fff irq 11 at
> : device 2.1 on pci0
> : cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
> : pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
> : pccard0: Card has no functions!
> : cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
> : pccard1: Card has no functions!
> : cbb1: PC Card card activation failed
> 
> This smells like a resource allocation issue.  The card was seen as
> being there, but when the card was probed for its information, we
> found none.
> 
> The biggest difference between newcard and oldcard in the CIS area is
> that newcard asks the system for memory region to use from high
> memory, while oldcard has a value passed in, usually from the ISA hole.
> 
> Warner
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