Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

I do wonder whether, as you have windows, you should be using the soc
support - the soc support is based interfacing hardware which does not
have windows into the generic infrastructure which assumes the presence
of windows.
  

Hi Russell,
Yes I understand what you mean.

I asked on -pcmcia about the approach back in June 2009:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-pcmcia&m=124805223926065&w=2
but didn't get a reply :(

OTOH soc_common provides some other useful stuff like polling thread,
common interrupt handler core, common debug etc.

Cheers,

Martin