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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:45:52 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        imp@village.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Raylink driver/Mapping attribute memory
Message-ID:  <20000220144552.22305@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000219173104.dmlb@computer.my.domain>; from Duncan Barclay on Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 05:31:04PM -0000
References:  <XFMail.000219173104.dmlb@computer.my.domain>

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 05:31:04PM -0000, Duncan Barclay wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've started work on porting/writing a driver for the Webgear Raylink cards.
> 
> I need to access the attribute memory on the cards to set and clear
> interrupts whilst communicating through the shared RAM on the cards.
> 
> Is there a "real" way to do this in 3.x or -current? I can copy the hacking used
> in the Xircom Realport driver for the moment if not.

AFAIK no approved way to do it in 3.x.  I don't think the Xircom
hack actually breaks anything; it's just non-portable, hard to maintain and 
plain ugly :-)  There will be a clean interface to pccard memory in 4.x,
but it's not implemented yet (is that right, Warner?)

	Scott
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