Re: Bug in pcmcia-core

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Adam Belay wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:37:30PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tried conacting the mailing list for the PCMCIA subsystem in
> > Linux, but no-one seems to respond.
> >
> > PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM
> > L:      http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
> > S:      Unmaintained
> >
> > I am trying to write a Linux ALSA driver for the Creative Audigy 2 NX
> > Notebook PCMCIA card.
> > This is a cardbus card, that uses ioports.
> > When it is inserted into the laptop, the entry appears in "lspci -vv "
> > showing ioports used by the card.
> > As soon as my driver uses "outb()" to anything in the address range
> > shown in "lspci -vv" , the PC hangs.
> >
> > I can only conclude from this that ioport resources are not being
> > allocated correctly to the PCMCIA card.
>
>
> It's possible.
>
>
> > Can anybody help me track this down. If someone could tell me which
> > PCMCIA and PCI registers should be set for it to work, I could then find
> > out which pcmcia registers have not been set correctly, and fix the bug.
> >
> > It seems that the PCMCIA specification is not open and free, so I cannot
> > refer to it in order to fix this myself.
> >
> > Can anybody help me?
> >
> > James
>
>
> Please provide more information.  /proc/ioports, lspci -vv, the ranges
> assigned to your driver, and your driver code if it's available.  I'll try
> to look into the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam

Please see bug#5057. I have placed all the information there.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057

James
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