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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:44:29 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org>
Cc:        imp@village.org, grog@lemis.com, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha RELNOTES.TXT
Message-ID:  <20000905194429.B1377@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20000905173102.2860437B43F@hub.freebsd.org>; from wpaul@freebsd.org on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:31:02AM -0700
References:  <20000905192425.A1189@freebie.demon.nl> <20000905173102.2860437B43F@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:31:02AM -0700, Bill Paul wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:42:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <20000905153145.A639@freebie.demon.nl> Wilko Bulte writes:
> > > : Hm, partly maybe. For example all the EISA boards are a no-no on Alpha
> > > : altogether. PCMCIA cards same story. I'd rather go for a 'yes, this
> > > : works' than a 'anybodys guess' type of document.
> > > 
> > > pcmcia could be made to work on alpha w/o a huge amount of hassle, but
> > > NEWCARD should make that easier.  One should remove them from the
> > > supported list of hardware on the alpha until someone undertakes that
> > > hassle.
> > 
> > Thing is there is only one Alpha that I know of that has PCMCIA slots. And
> > that is the venerable Multia. And maybe the 'Alphabook' but I never saw one.
> 
> There exist such things as ISA to PCMCIA and PCI to PCMCIA bus adapter
> cards. If you buy an ISA or PCI WaveLAN/IEEE card, what you're really
> getting is one of these bus adapters with a PCMCIA WaveLAN/IEEE module.
> So if you're worried about testing PCMCIA with alpha hardware, don't be. :)

Me? Worry? Naa ;-) Question remains, given the relatively small alpha-user
population, when this will ever be tested/debugged etc

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					wilko@freebsd.org
							Arnhem, the Netherlands


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