Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH] m68k: reorganize Kconfig options to improve mmu/non-mmu selections

Brad Boyer
2011-08-15T22:17:14Z

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:53:35AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> > Even if we remove these options now they can always be re-introduced
> > if and when a driver that needs them is ready for mainline.
>
> Didn't the Amiga 600 and 1200 have PCMCIA slots? I have no idea if
> those are supported. I certainly don't have either of those (only some
> 500s and a 2000).

If I've read the code correctly, the apne driver supports an 8390 based
(normally used with pcnet_cs) PCMCIA card in the slots in those models.
However, it's not written to use the common PCMCIA framework. This is
why you have to use a specific list of supported cards rather than
anything normally supported by Linux. I remember someone complaining
that all they had was a 3Com Etherlink card which had worked in AmigaOS
but didn't work in Linux.

I get the impression that the Amiga slots are about as bad as what Apple
did in their first Macintosh PCMCIA implementation in terms of being
hard to support generically, but perhaps an Amiga slot driver could
eventually be written that would use the common PCMCIA framework.

Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com