Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:56:34 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mroos@linux.ee, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata & no PCI: dma_[un]map_single undefined
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:30:05 +0100
>> There are PCMCIA controllers and PCI/PCMCIA/Cardbus adapters for the
>> Sparc platform I thought ?

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:22:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> The 32-bit sparc port has some but those PCMCIA controllers aren't
> going to be supported in the foreseeable future, you have to abstract
> out all the inb/outb etc. operations to go through the pcmcia
> controller driver for one thing.
> Secondarily, sparc32 lacks an active maintainer and it's
> been like this for several years, the only things getting
> worked on therefore are basica functionality and the most
> important bug fixes.

I don't foresee my ever dealing with those PCMCIA controllers. If by
some miracle I manage to get any work done on basic functionality I'll
consider that having won.


-- wli
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