Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide

David Hinds, `dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu`

v1.24, 1995/07/31 05:48:28

This document describes how to write kernel device drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services. The latest version of this document can always be found at cb-iris.stanford.edu in /pub/pcmcia/doc.

1. Introduction

1.1 Copyright notice and disclaimer

1.2 Acknowledgements

2. Basic PCMCIA Concepts

2.1 The PCMCIA socket interface

2.2 The PCMCIA socket controller

3. Card Services subfunction descriptions

3.1 Client management functions

3.2 Socket state control

3.3 IO card configuration calls

3.4 Card Information Structure (CIS) calls

3.5 Memory window control

3.6 Bulk Memory Services

3.7 Miscellaneous calls

4. Card Information Structure Definitions

4.1 CIS Tuple Definitions

4.2 CIS configuration registers

5. Card Services Event Handling

5.1 Event handler operations

5.2 Event descriptions

5.3 Client driver event handling responsibilities

6. Memory Technology Drivers

6.1 MTD request handling

6.2 MTD helper functions

7. Driver Services interface

7.1 Interface to other client drivers

7.2 Interface to user mode PCMCIA utilities

8. Anatomy of a Card Services Client Driver

8.1 Module initialization and cleanup

8.2 The _attach() and _detach() functions

8.3 The _config() and _release() functions

8.4 The PCMCIA event handler

8.5 Locking and synchronization issues

8.6 Using existing Linux drivers to access PCMCIA devices

9. Where to Go for More Information