Time to retire PC Card (but not CardBus)

[Yoshihiro Ota]

Hi,

I think I have a couple of PCMCIA cards and/or bus.
How do I check?

Thanks,
Hiro

On Thu, 23 May 2019 18:34:46 -0600
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Now that a number of 16-bit drivers have been retired, I think it's time to
> retire 16-bit PC Card / PCMCIA cards. The 32-bit CardBus cards are still
> alive and kicking, but the need for 16-bit PC Cards has passed. It's time
> to retire it.
> 
> I've floated this idea before, and there was broad support for it. I've
> held off until after FCP 101 deprecation was playing out. We've not pushed
> that into the tree. This is the logical next step. FreeBSD 12.x will be the
> last release with 16-bit PC Card support.
> 
> My plan is to add deprecation notices to the remaining PC Card drivers,
> merge those back to FreeBSD 11 and 12. Once that's done, I plan on removing
> the 16-bit support. I have a few minor bug fixes to that which I'll push in
> before I retire it, and merge those fixes.
> 
> My plan is to give about a month for the community to discuss this plan
> before I add the warnings. If there's resistance, we'll go with more formal
> data collection and deprecation. If there's none, I'll go ahead.
> 
> This affects the following drivers: an, cmx, fdc, puc, uart, wi, bt3c, ata.
> 
> Warner
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