Re: Any gain to supporting only a single PCMCIA slot?
Hi! > PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system > resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA > support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be > supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the user opt out of > supporting one of the slots. > > Compaq, in their finite wisdom, only provides a single Type2 Cardbus slot > on my Presario 1260 notebook. The controller (a TI PCI1131, see below) > can handle 2 slots, of course, but only a single physical connector is > present on this machine. Therefore I will never get the use of half of > the controller, including the I/O address, etc. that the kernel has > allocated for it. > Would it be worth the savings in system resources to allow support for > only a single slot? Probably not. Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Any gain to supporting only a single PCMCIA slot?
Hi! PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the user opt out of supporting one of the slots. Compaq, in their finite wisdom, only provides a single Type2 Cardbus slot on my Presario 1260 notebook. The controller (a TI PCI1131, see below) can handle 2 slots, of course, but only a single physical connector is present on this machine. Therefore I will never get the use of half of the controller, including the I/O address, etc. that the kernel has allocated for it. Would it be worth the savings in system resources to allow support for only a single slot? Probably not. Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care. Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Any gain to supporting only a single PCMCIA slot?
Hello. PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the user opt out of supporting one of the slots. Compaq, in their finite wisdom, only provides a single Type2 Cardbus slot on my Presario 1260 notebook. The controller (a TI PCI1131, see below) can handle 2 slots, of course, but only a single physical connector is present on this machine. Therefore I will never get the use of half of the controller, including the I/O address, etc. that the kernel has allocated for it. Would it be worth the savings in system resources to allow support for only a single slot? Thank you. --- # cat /proc/iomem -0009f7ff : System RAM 0009f800-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f-000f : System ROM 0010-09ff : System RAM 0010-001d1aad : Kernel code 001d1aae-0021083f : Kernel data 1000-1fff : Texas Instruments PCI1131 10001000-10001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1131 (#2) 1040-107f : PCI CardBus #01 1040-1041 : PCI device 10b7:6564 1080-10bf : PCI CardBus #01 1080-1080007f : PCI device 10b7:6564 10800080-108000ff : PCI device 10b7:6564 10800100-108001ff : PCI device 10b7:6565 10800200-1080027f : PCI device 10b7:6565 10c0-10ff : PCI CardBus #05 1100-113f : PCI CardBus #05 fd00-fdff : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] fea0-febf : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] fecff000-fecf : OPTi Inc. 82C861 fed0-fedf : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Any gain to supporting only a single PCMCIA slot?
Hello. PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the user opt out of supporting one of the slots. Compaq, in their finite wisdom, only provides a single Type2 Cardbus slot on my Presario 1260 notebook. The controller (a TI PCI1131, see below) can handle 2 slots, of course, but only a single physical connector is present on this machine. Therefore I will never get the use of half of the controller, including the I/O address, etc. that the kernel has allocated for it. Would it be worth the savings in system resources to allow support for only a single slot? Thank you. --- # cat /proc/iomem -0009f7ff : System RAM 0009f800-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f-000f : System ROM 0010-09ff : System RAM 0010-001d1aad : Kernel code 001d1aae-0021083f : Kernel data 1000-1fff : Texas Instruments PCI1131 10001000-10001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1131 (#2) 1040-107f : PCI CardBus #01 1040-1041 : PCI device 10b7:6564 1080-10bf : PCI CardBus #01 1080-1080007f : PCI device 10b7:6564 10800080-108000ff : PCI device 10b7:6564 10800100-108001ff : PCI device 10b7:6565 10800200-1080027f : PCI device 10b7:6565 10c0-10ff : PCI CardBus #05 1100-113f : PCI CardBus #05 fd00-fdff : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] fea0-febf : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] fecff000-fecf : OPTi Inc. 82C861 fed0-fedf : Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
