From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263818AbUGFMaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:30:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263790AbUGFMaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:30:10 -0400 Received: from news.ti.com ([192.94.94.33]:6622 "EHLO dragon.ti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263815AbUGFMaC (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40EA9B31.3000404@ti.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:29:37 +0300 From: Alexander Sirotkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: cardbus/pci question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2004 12:29:43.0262 (UTC) FILETIME=[EA4E4FE0:01C46354] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I could not find any information on this in the archives, so I thought I might ask it here. Theoretically, it should be possible to write cardbus driver as a regular PCI driver. It will not support hotplug, of course, but if one can assume that the hardware is plugged in by the time the driver is loaded, it should work. One issue does bother me a little bit - cardbus is connected to the PCI bus through a bridge. The question is - do I have to configure that bridge from my driver (to get memory mappings and interrupts), because obviously the OS won't do it for me when I'm not registered as cardbus driver. Thanks. In your answer, please CC me since I'm not subscribed to the list. -- Alexander Sirotkin SW Engineer Texas Instruments Broadband Communications Israel (BCIL) Tel: +972-9-9706587 ________________________________________________________________________ "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer