Re: PCMCIA 1394 cards

[Erik W. <om...@cs...>]

On Sun, 21 May 2000 aw...@an... wrote:

> I've not seen anything in this list (or the PCMCIA project pages)
> about PCMCIA 1394 cards. Are any known to be supported/ are there
> plans to support them? Is this an issue for PCMCIA, or for 1394 lists- 
> or both? 
> 
> I have a WesternDigital 1394 PCCard, and would like to use it under
> Linux. I installed the 1394 kernel patch, but the card isn't
> recognized by the card manager. Does anyone have any experience with
> this specific card?

I've done a lot of work trying to get the 1394 subsystem to do CardBus
cards.  I can get my OHCI card to recognize and almost self-id, but for
some reason interrupts never really make it to the card.  I haven't had
time to look into this recently, but I'll be doing so within a month,
since I'll probably need it.

The key is a rewrite of the host management code, since it's very not 2.3
friendly.  I need to get my changes applied to the latest code so I can
submit a patch, then get the host controller drivers rearranged so they
work.  Then CardBus should be close to working.

         Erik Walthinsen <om...@cs...> - Staff Programmer @ OGI
        Quasar project - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/quasar/
   Video4Linux Two drivers and stuff - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/v4l2/
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