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From: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:02:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98144667404727@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98118528107653@msgid-missing>

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:37:07AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Not everything nowadays is an i82365, the bridge chip the PCMCIA spec 
> appears to have been written for.

The spec is actually quite general; the virtualized IO and memory
access scheme is pretty much straight out of the spec.

> I spent a long time trying to avoid this abstraction in the MTD code,
> before someone eventually convinced me that unconditional branches really
> aren't that difficult for modern CPUs to predict, and the increased
> simplicity of the 'map' abstraction was better.

Be sure that you need it.  I originally liked the idea (otherwise I
would not have implemented it), but it has not worked out to be useful
so far.

-- Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-06  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-03  7:28 Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed Miles Lane
2001-02-03 10:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-03 19:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-03 23:59 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-04  0:00 ` David Hinds
2001-02-04  0:05 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-04  1:19 ` David Brownell
2001-02-04  1:58 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-04  3:26 ` Keith Owens
2001-02-04  5:59 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-04  8:56 ` David Hinds
2001-02-04  9:55 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-04 10:00 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-04 10:10 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-04 10:53 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-04 11:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-04 17:34 ` David Hinds
2001-02-04 18:02 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-04 18:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-04 18:54 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-05  1:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-05  1:56 ` David Brownell
2001-02-05  2:43 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-05  8:42 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-05 10:01 ` Keith Owens
2001-02-05 10:13 ` Keith Owens
2001-02-05 23:43 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-05 23:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-05 23:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06  0:27 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-06  1:10 ` David Brownell
2001-02-06  1:40 ` David Brownell
2001-02-06  6:55 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-06  7:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-06  7:58 ` David Hinds
2001-02-06  8:02 ` David Hinds [this message]
2001-02-06  8:13 ` David Hinds
2001-02-06  9:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 13:46 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-06 15:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-06 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-06 15:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 15:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-06 15:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-06 18:56 ` David Brownell
2001-02-06 19:22 ` David Brownell
2001-02-06 19:31 ` David Brownell
2001-02-06 22:09 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-02-06 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-06 22:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-06 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-06 23:14 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-06 23:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-06 23:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 23:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-06 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-07  1:33 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07  2:11 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-07  2:38 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-02-07  9:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07  9:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-07  9:10 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-07  9:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07  9:37 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-07  9:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 10:11 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-07 10:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-07 10:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 10:30 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-07 14:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 15:19 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-02-07 16:11 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 17:37 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-07 17:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-07 18:24 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07 18:42 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07 18:47 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07 18:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 19:00 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07 19:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-07 19:59 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-07 21:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-07 21:14 ` David Brownell
2001-02-07 22:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-08  7:22 ` Miles Lane
2001-02-08  9:29 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-02-08 10:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-08 12:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-08 13:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-08 13:49 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-08 14:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-08 15:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-08 15:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-08 15:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-09  7:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-09 11:48 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-09 12:45 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-09 13:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-02-09 14:15 ` David Brownell
2001-02-09 15:45 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-26 17:47 ` David Brownell
2001-02-26 21:45 ` Chris Brand
2001-02-27  7:56 ` David Hinds
2001-02-28 16:56 ` David Brownell
2001-02-28 17:32 ` David Hinds

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