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- Matthew Wilcox writes:
- > Has anyone had problems with a RiscPC and copro card? I added an SX-33
- > about a week ago and I've had several really nasty problems since. Might
- > it be overheating? Does ARMLinux do something nasty to the pc card?
- > I ask since it seems to undo the effect of PCSleep.
-
- ARM Linux does not touch anything near the second processor interface.
- The only thing is that ARM Linux will trample over all RAM, including the
- RAM that the PC card is using...
-
- > [oh, in case anyone's interested, I'm currently working on drivers for
- > Linux on the PC card. I've asked Mark Brinicombe to send me the source
- > to his drivers, but he's not responded yet. Prolly because he's in the
- > states. Stock 2.1.92 boots from an initrd without trouble but my driver
- > for accessing floppies/hard discs/cdroms is not even nearly working yet.]
-
- >From what I remember a couple of years ago, this information is only
- available under NDA. You're not the first person to try to port Linux
- to the PC card - others include Mark Brinicombe and Martin Ebourne...
- In each case, they haven't been able to release the driver sources
- for their port.
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