From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "René Rebe" <rene@exactco.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] macio airport how standard pccard?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:32:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1513978351.2743.84.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5892E0F5-B2E2-44A3-B6DA-4D57833EF67F@exactco.de>
On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 16:18 +0100, René Rebe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a nice 1.2 GHz G4 Cube on my desk, and if I could somehow get USB 2 into it, it would be way more useful as a “thin client” ;-)
>
> I was looking at the macio airport kernel glue, but could not immediately figure out how much standard pcmcia/cardbus that is.
> Is there any chance I could hack up some kernel patch glue to get a pcmcia/pccard USB 2.0 NEC chip based card working in there - or is it totally hopeless?
>
> Thanks for any tip and merry christmas!
I'm not 100% sure. I think it's some kind of PCMCIA card but PCMCIA is
basically just some kind of ISA bus with control lines.
I honestly don't know much more about it.
Cheers,
Ben.
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2017-12-22 15:18 [RFC] macio airport how standard pccard? René Rebe
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