Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x

[Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>]

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Pavel Machek wrote:
| Hi!
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|>|>| PCMCIA... well, that's another obsolete technology. Too bad.
|>|>
|>|>PCMCIA is obsolete? Did I miss something, or was this a joke?
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|>| Obsoleted by cardbus, I believe. (cardbus cards look like PCMCIA
|>| cards, but electrical protocol is different) Plus, as someone else
|>| noted, stuff moves into mainboard. USB also replacs part of what
|>| PCMCIA was for.
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|>hmm, I didn't know that there is a change from PCMCIA to cardbus.
|>Thought still there are lot of pcmcia stuff around. wlan cards, eg my
|>dial up card (CF card into a PCMCIA adapter). Well I wouldn't abandon
|>PCMCIA so fast. At least the linux kernel is know for beeing able to use
|>very old hardware in a very good way ...
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| Yes, pcmcia still survives in form of compactflash, mostly used by
| low-powered handhelds etc. That's where ISA survives too.

well and low-powered handhelds are one field where linux should run :)
at least on my zaurus its running happily [okay this doesn't have a
pcmcia slot, just an sd/card and cf/card]

| I agree that supporting PCMCIA is usefull, and that linux should run
| on old hardware; but you can see that PCMCIA and APM is in "old
| hardware" category, along with ISA, Pentium I CPUs and serial ports.

Well I wouldn't put PCMCIA into the same part as ISA and Pentium I,
because my 2 year old Sonylaptop with a Pentium-M 4 1.5Ghz has PCMCIA
slots ... So its not like it is found only on stone old Laptops.

| Linux still tries to support 386 cpus, and its right. However its not
| same level of support as modern hardware.

yeah but its very rare to find 386 (except perhaps junkyards), but its
very common to find PCMCIA. way more easy than Pentium I or ISA slots ...

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