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Subject: RE: [RFC v2 25/39] pcmcia: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies
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On Wed, 4 May 2022, David Laight wrote:

> I think you can find cardbus cards that have a pci bridge and a cable
> link to an expansion chassis into which you can insert standard PCI cards.
> If you are really lucky the initial enumeration allocates the
> 'high field' bus numbers, io addresses and plenty of memory
> space to the bridge - otherwise you lose.

 No need to rely on luck as (given that no single size fits all) we have 
the `hpbussize', `hpiosize', `hpmemsize', `hpmmioprefsize', `hpmmiosize', 
options to the `pci=...' kernel parameter for people to tune the settings 
according to their needs.  I don't have such a CardBus option, but I do 
have a couple of such ExpressCard devices, and mixed PCIe/PCI expansion 
backplanes for them.

  Maciej