Re: [microblaze-uclinux] pcmcia and 802.11 cards

[aurash <aurelian.lazarut@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,
See my correction below

Richard Klosinski wrote:

>I'd like to start designing a pcmcia interface for my microblaze/ucLinux
>system, and would like to know if anyone has had experience making this
>connection. I have a few questions:
>
>1) I noticed that most pcmcia card side chipsets do now use address lines
>a11:24. Can someone confirm this?
>
>2) Obviously, the microblaze is 32 bits, so I plan to steer the 16bit data
>to the upper/lower words depending on the lsb (a31 in the microblaze world).
>Does this sound like it would work?
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>
Erata:
when you write to the 16 bit peripheral you need to steer the 16 bits 
slice, and when you read you need to mirror the 16 bits of data on both 
slices 16 high and 16 low.

Aurash

>Anyone have words of en/dis-couragement before I start...
>
>Thanks
>Rich.
>
>PS. If anyone is interested in the port to the nuhorizon sp3 demo board, I
>can tar the new files with instructions on how to re-assemble them. Sorry,
>Im not to savvy in the linux world of patches. The card is now 100%
>functional (sdram, flash, 2 comm ports, and led to blink a heartbeat).
>
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