RE: [Etherboot-developers] USB NICs and Etherboot RFC

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

> FWIW, I thought about adding PCMCIA support a few months back.  My
> strategy was going to be to start by adding ISAPNP support to the core
of
> Etherboot (using the code currently in 3c515.c), since 16-bit PCMCIA

I took a quick look at the isapnp code that I used in the 3c515 driver.
It is very easy to isolate and pull out to separate isapnp.c file.  I
did that updated the Makefile and was able to compile the driver without
any issues.

As per my previous email, I would recommend a major rewrite of the
isapnp code if you believe that there is merit in enabling this code for
something other than the 3c515 driver.  The current code is a hack of
the ISAPNPTOOLS and the Linux isapnp code.

If no one objects, I can finish cleaning up the 3c515, moving all the
ISAPNP code to isapnp.c and isapnp.h (the 3c515 would still specifically
need to call the ISAPNP code until someone implements isapnp as).  

However, should I make the ISAPNP a compile time option so it does not
increase the size of the compiled code for drivers that do not require
it?  If so, what is the preferred way of doing that?

Tim