Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 02:14:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documenting pcic changes to -CURRENT and -STABLE Message-ID: <200109030814.f838E6h24548@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2001 22:26:42 PDT." <200109030526.f835Qg009572@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200109030526.f835Qg009572@intruder.bmah.org> <200109020412.f824CkD03205@intruder.bmah.org> <200108312226.f7VMQWk00844@intruder.bmah.org> <200109010833.f818X0h10099@harmony.village.org> <200109020416.f824G9h17457@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200109030526.f835Qg009572@intruder.bmah.org> Bruce A. Mah writes: : In the meantime, here's a shot at some release notes text, which I : think captures the essence of your (most excellent) explanation. If : you think this is OK, I can commit this and do an insta-MFC. : (Obviously if you have any suggestions for improvement, I'd be happy to : take them. It was hard to distill a two-page email down to a single : paragraph, and it's possible things got lost in the translation.) OK. : Thanks! : : Bruce. : : Index: new.sgml : =================================================================== : RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml,v : retrieving revision 1.122 : diff -u -r1.122 new.sgml : --- new.sgml 2001/09/01 10:52:25 1.122 : +++ new.sgml 2001/09/03 05:20:38 : @@ -240,6 +240,22 @@ : as tuneables) at compile-time using &man.config.8;'s : <literal>ENV</literal> directive.</para> : : + <para>On many modern hosts, PCCARD devices can be configured to be : + <quote>attached</quote> to either the ISA or PCI expansion busses. Not entirely true. : + The &man.pcic.4; driver has been updated to support both types of : + attachment (formerly, only attachment to a host's ISA bus was : + supported). In most cases, configuration of PCMCIA devices in : + laptops is simpler and more flexible. I think that you should focus on interrupt paths rather than attachment. Other than that, it looks good. In the new system, CardBus cards always ATTACH to the PCI bus, but they can route intererupts either via the PCI path or via the ISA path. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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