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Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:29:27 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King),
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> Alan, Russell is talking about CardBus controllers (it's also PCMCIA, in
> fact, these days it's the _only_ pcmcia in any machine made less than five
> years ago).

I have at least two machines here that are < 2 years old but disagree
with you. Once is only months old. 

> The patches to get i82365 and TCIC up and running again are interesting
> mainly for laptops with i486 CPUs and for desktops with pcmcia add-in
> cards (which are basically always ISA i82365-clones). They aren't
> interesting to ARM, I suspect.

Much ARM stuff has embedded PCMCIA controllers not cardbus, ditto most MIPS
WinCE hardware

Alan

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