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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2002-06-22 22:30:09 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2002-06-22 22:30:09 +0000 |
| commit | b295ac42f7f25218e76e28cc6809c43588ecb3d3 (patch) | |
| tree | dd400c494ed51f90dd8b4b29c568cfb8241527a2 | |
| parent | a wireless section is dumb (diff) | |
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note the existance of big-endian pcmcia busses
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/pcmcia.4 | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/pcmcia.4 b/share/man/man4/pcmcia.4 index 0f2a539e812..55678661444 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/pcmcia.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/pcmcia.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pcmcia.4,v 1.22 2002/06/20 03:37:54 fgsch Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pcmcia.4,v 1.23 2002/06/22 22:30:09 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: pcmcia.4,v 1.4 1998/06/07 09:10:30 enami Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Proxim RangeLAN2 PC-Card .It Xr sm 4 Megahertz Ethernet cards. .It Xr wi 4 -Lucent WaveLAN IEEE 802.11DS and compatible cards. +WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM-II and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11DS cards. .It Xr xe 4 Xircom 16bit Ethernet cards. .El @@ -104,6 +104,22 @@ This includes Compact Flash cards which emulate a disk drive. .El .Pp The supported PCMCIA controllers are those that are i82365 compatible. +.Sh NOTES +On some +.Nm +adapters, for instance the +.Xr sbus 4 Ns -based +.Xr stp 4 , +the +.Nm +bus will be mapped in big-endian format instead of the natural (and +preferred) little endian format. +Unfortunately such controllers lack the hardware facility to swap bytes, +and it is not efficient to convert all drivers to always know about this. +While 8 bit drivers can invisibly work on such a bus, but 16 bit +drivers will need modification to handle this. +.Xr wi 4 +is the first driver to have these modifications. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cardbus 4 , .Xr intro 4 , |