From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3z3MDq6f67zF0CF for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:32:58 +1100 (AEDT) Message-ID: <1513978351.2743.84.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] macio airport how standard pccard? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= Rebe , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:32:31 +1100 In-Reply-To: <5892E0F5-B2E2-44A3-B6DA-4D57833EF67F@exactco.de> References: <5892E0F5-B2E2-44A3-B6DA-4D57833EF67F@exactco.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.