Re: [Etherboot-developers] pcmcia cardbus development

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >I am new to the list and just found the etherboot program. I would like to 
> >make it work through a pcmcia nic. I saw there is no support for it in the 
> >program now but is on the to-do list. 
> >
> >I want to make a start on this development but I have no idea where to 
> >start. Do anyone have an idea where to start ? documentation etc.
> 
> Start with the Developers Manual. Depending on what kind of card it is,
> it might be easy. I believe compact PCI cards look like PCI devices.
> You could look at the Prism drivers which have support for a PCMCIA
> controller. Michael Brown did that one.

As I understand it except for hotplug issues cardbus should pretty
much be pci.  Eventually etherboot might need some resource assignment
code so you can get at pci devices but otherwise it should be pretty
straight forward.  Actually handling card insert/removal while we
are trying to network boot could be a challenge.

Eric