Technical data
SunOS 5.5 Devices pcic(7D)
NAME pcic − Intel i82365SL PC Card Interface Controller
DESCRIPTION The Intel i82365SL PC Card Interface Controller provides one or more PCMCIA PC Card
sockets. The pcic adapter driver provides an interface between thePCMCIA sockets and
the PCMCIA nexus.
The driver supports the Intel 82365SL chip and a number of chips from other vendors
based on the 82365SL design. The chip that have been tested are:
Intel 82365SL
Cirrus Logic PD6710/PD6720
Vadem VG365/VG465/VG468
Toshiba
Ricoh RF5C366
Most systems using one of these chips should work.
Direct access to the PCMCIA hardware is not supported. The driver exists solely to sup-
port the PCMCIA nexus.
CONFIGURATION
Driver Configuration There are several required configuration properties which are used to tell thePCMCIA
nexus driver what resources are available to be allocated to PC card drivers. The proper-
ties and their definitionsare as follows:
res-ioaddr=<io-range>,...,<io-range>
This property is a list of io-range values which consist of an I/O base
address and length. The address ranges must not overlap any other
device’s I/O address range.
res-memory=<mem-range>,...,<mem-range>
This property is a list of mem-range values which consist of a memory
base address in the first 16MB of memory and a length of the block of
memory. The memory range must not be used either by real memory
or any device that uses a shared memory interface. Typically, the
memory will be in the 640K to 1MB range where normal device
memory resides. It must also not be at location zero to 64K.
res-irq=<irq-list> This property is a simple list of IRQ levels that are available for use by
the pcic driver. Care must be taken to ensure that no other device in
the system uses any of the IRQ levels presented in this list. The list
should only consider IRQs from the list 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and
15 since these are the only ones the hardware can use.
The driver defaults to using the second to last interrupt level defined
in res-irq as its system management interrupt (SMI) which is used to
handle card insertion/removal events.If, for some reason, the default
is not desirable, it can be overridden by adding an smi property to the
pcic.conf file. The value of the property should be the IRQ level to use
and it must be one of the values specified in the res-irq list.
modified 20 Mar 1995 7D-243