[SPARCbook] Which BSD, and will anyone ever do the pcmcia bridge?

[Thomas Roehr]

Sorry, but your wrong. Linux has the same support for the pcmcia bridge 
that the BSD's do. Stubs for code. And it is the same from a heat 
standpoint, if you run a 2.3 or newer kernel.

Graphics support is the same, a macro hack to use the P9100 as a CG3 
card, no acceleration.

Tom Roehr

Koyote wrote:

>SO, I'm torn between open and netbsd (I'm ignoring linux all together
>since it doesn't seem to have pcmcia bridge support and it's generally
>worse to run form a comfort standpoint than Sol 2.6)
>
>This is hard to discuss on the *bsd lists due to religion, but:
>
>I need functional support of the power subsystem (heat and suspend)
>
>The best graphics support I can get 
>
>and some *hope* of eventual sound support and (would someone accept a
>BRIBE to finish this?) PCMCIA support so I can finally just pop a
>wavelan card in there.
>
>(yes, the wi driver for solaris 2.6 would be fine- even better, since
>I'd have full hardware support)
>
>so, any opinions?
>
>
>
>
>-C
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