CardBus USB 2.0 Controller (NEC uPD)

[Josef Karthauser]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:37:35PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:51:10AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> > I recently purchased a generic CompUSA branded CardBus USB 2.0
> > controller for a challenge to try to get it to work under FreeBSD ;)  It
> > appears to use an NEC chip -- one that I've seen reports of the PCI
> > version working -- so at least some of the support for it is already
> > there.  I'm willing to take a stab at it and would be grateful if
> > someone can point me in the general direction of where to start.
> 
> There are known problems with USB2.0 cardbus cards.
> We have some kind of resource problem - Warner already wrote something
> about it some time ago.
> 
> > If I pop out the card I get:
> 
> Neither OHCI nor EHCI controllers have working detach code right now.

The detach code could be made to work fairly easily.  It's mostly there
I believe, but disabled.  Nick couldn't convince himself that all the
used memory was being returned if the device is suddently unloaded.  You
could suck it and see.

Joe
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