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Re: pcmcia support for motorola mpc8xx
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- Subject: Re: [ECOS] pcmcia support for motorola mpc8xx
- From: "Linus Nielsen Feltzing" <linus at haxx dot se>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:52:58 +0100
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103020938250.28430-100000@pm1.contactor.se>
> At this time, we do not have drivers for the PCMCIA on the MPC8xx. What
we
> do have is a generic PCMCIA framework which is split into two parts. The
> piece of interest to you is the hardware driver which manages the actual
> chip details. The only example of a PCMCIA (and Compact Flash - in this
case
> they are equivalent) hardware driver is for the PCMCIA/CF controller on
the
> StrongARM SA1110.
>
> To create PCMCIA support for your device, you would need to write the
hardware
> driver. You could model it after the CF driver. Sadly, at this time the
only
> documentation for this process is the code itself.
>
Maybe I can help. I have written PCMCIA drivers for pSOS for the MPC821,
which has the same PCMCIA controller as the 850 and 860. I will look at the
CF
sources and see what I can do for the 860.
/Linus Nielsen Feltzing