Browsing this Thread:
1 Anonymous Users
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
 
|
Quote:
Expresscard is and external version of PCI-Express (with a USB port), so appratenly if you support PCI-Express then you support Expresscards... and, I understand that PCI-Express looks like PCI to unaware software... so we should have support for them already 
Posted on: 2007/4/19 19:21
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
"just"?  I think Cardbus is getting standard on AROS laptops as the time goes (and PCMCIA is getting outdated, but I don't mean we don't have to support it! Btw I like to read CompactFlash cards on my laptop (I use an adaptor for this), and it's PCMCIA's job afaik, even if my port is a Cardbus one... so it must be backwards compatible)Cardbus is really useful... so if you say it's "just" an extend to do and if someone could be happy to do it, I must say I would be happy to add some euros to such a bounty, because I would like to use it!
Posted on: 2007/4/19 8:05
|
|||
|
Everyone knew it was impossible. Along came a fool who did not know and he did it.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
pccard.library ? Quote:
Impossible. There's one major problem with it - it's not aware of multiple slots. card.resource assumes there's only one card. The thing i am thinking about is a next version of pccard.library capable not only of parsing tuples. The API of new subsystem can be very similar to card.resource, so apps will be very easy to port. The main difference: in card.resource we have OwnCard() function called on a selfmade CardHandle. This function needs to be extended to support matching callback, like our PCI subsystem have. This would allow the driver to request which cards it wants. All other cards in the system will stay untouched by this driver. An insertion interrupt should be global, independent on CardHandle. It should occur when a new card matching the given specs is inserted. ForceRemove() function should also have matching callback. This subsystem IMHO should be ported to other AmigaOS flavours as well, because it could work not only with machine's builtin hardware but also with PCI adapter cards. Quote:
I guess Linux does this. For cardbus it has a component called PCI-hotplug. We just need to extend our PCI support with in in order to support CardBus then.
Posted on: 2007/4/19 6:39
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Not too shy to talk
|
well i thought type I was only memory cards. I dont really think that type I is all that important right now, but it should be done, at least down the road. I would rather be able to browse the net than add more memory. though a bit more would be nice. wonder if i can put more into this thing *google*
Posted on: 2007/4/18 20:09
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
|
IIRC, version 2 of the PCMCIA/PCCard standard may have introduced support for non-memory cards, but this is nothing to do with the type. Type III cards do take up two slots, but they can be 16 bit or 32 bit.
Posted on: 2007/4/18 19:28
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Not too shy to talk
|
cardbus is in fact backward compatible. ncafferkey, i may be wrong, but i am pretty sure that I was only a memory upgrade, hence what pcmcia originally stood for (and i guess still does). i thought that 2 and 3 were different in more than just thickness. doesnt 3 take 2 slots and isnt it 32 bit?
Posted on: 2007/4/18 18:23
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Type I/II/III only refers to the card thickness. It's better to refer to non-CardBus cards as 16 bit. I've already written a PCMCIA support library for AmigaOS. I think it would be good to port it to AROS and implement card.resource. We would then have drivers for 3Com and Prism II network cards straight away. I also had some ideas for how to support multiple slots through the existing card.resource API. Something different might be necessary for CardBus of course. Maybe it would be better to support it through the PCI layer.
Posted on: 2007/4/18 17:58
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Not too shy to talk
|
what is a pitty? how much difference is cardbus from pcmcia 2?
Posted on: 2007/4/18 13:47
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
|
It's a pity.
Posted on: 2007/4/18 13:28
|
|||
|
||||
|
Re: Cardbus
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Not too shy to talk
|
Quote:
well as far as i know there isnt even a bounty written. like i said, i would be willing to donate some $$. but you say you dont have cardbus on your laptop? not sure how well that would help anyone even though it is backwards compatible, i dont think you can buy type2 devices any more. -Syco54645
Posted on: 2007/4/18 11:44
|
|||
|
||||
You can view topic.
You cannot start a new topic.
You cannot reply to posts.
You cannot edit your posts.
You cannot delete your posts.
You cannot add new polls.
You cannot vote in polls.
You cannot attach files to posts.
You cannot post without approval.
You cannot use topic type.
You cannot use HTML syntax.
You cannot use signature.
You cannot create PDF files.
You cannot get print page.
