SBus PCMCIA Adapter

[Charlie Livingston]

I'd be more then happy to test whatever code I can.

After a little more investigation, It looks like the hardware needs some sort of
a shim to work.  Under OpenBSD the PCMCIA card is detected as attached to another
device named 'stp'.  After a little more searching, it looks like stp is a driver
that provides an interface between the actual PCMCIA sockets and the PCMCIA nexus.

Some more searching pointed to this code for NetBSD to support this interface;
located at the following URL: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/sbus/stp4020.c
Although I'm relatively useless for coding, if anyone has the inclination to port
this over, i'd be more then happy to lend whatever help I can in testing this.

Thanks for all the input.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:37:44PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson said:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 01:25, Charlie Livingston wrote:
> > I've got a Sun Ultra 1 (it may be an ultra 1E, i'm not sure) that i'm running
> > at home as a firewall/nat/server for my home LAN.  It works flawlessly under
> > FreeBSD 5.3 except for one issue;  For the life of me, I can't get the kernel
> > to recognise the SBus PCMCIA adapter that came installed in the machine.  
> > 
> > I've added pcmcia/carbus support to the kernel and recompiled to no avail;
> > 
> > The kernel compiles cleanly without error, but dmesg still reports that the
> > device has no driver attached to it.
> > 
> > I've attached my kernel config and dmesg output below, is there something I'm
> > missing?
> 
> As I understand it, at the moment there is no support.  A while back
> Warner was after a sbus-based Sparc so that he could work on pcmcia
> support. Looks like his wish was granted about a month ago, so for now I
> would suggest you wait or maybe email him and see if there's any testing
> that you can help with.
> 
> Gavin
> 

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