Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:38:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC or NEWCARD Message-ID: <200110100138.f9A1ca770658@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:15:30 %2B0930." <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> References: <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au>
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In message <3BC38C1A.7AB8BBA@reason.levels.unisa.edu.au> Benjamin Close writes: : Hi All, : Could someone please explain the main difference between using a : GENERIC kernel and a NEWCARD kernel. I'm using -current and continually : debate which is the correct one to use on my laptop. (Dell Inspiron : 8000). GENERIC uses the pccard implementation that we introduced in the 2.x time frame, that PAO improve and that we merged most of their changes back into FreeBSD. It uses a userland configuration tool (pccardd) to read the card meta data, tell the kernel which device to use and run scripts upon successful attachment. It only supports 16-bit cards. NEWCARD uses the pccard framework ported from newconfig, which ported it from NetBSD, with infusions from NetBSD. It supports 16 and 32 bit cards. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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