pack_cis(8)
NAME
pack_cis - compile PCMCIA Card Information Structures
SYNOPSIS
pack_cis [-o outfile] infile
DESCRIPTION
Pack_cis is used to convert a text description of a PCMCIA
Card Information Structure (CIS) to its packed binary rep
resentation. It can parse a reasonably useful subset of
the possible output of the dump_cis utility. The primary
use of pack_cis is to construct replacement CIS files for
cards that have incomplete, inaccurate, or damaged CIS
structures. Thus, the supported tuple types are mostly
limited to things that are important for correctly config
uring typical IO cards.
By default, the packed data is written to standard output.
FORMAT
The best way to get started writing CIS descriptions will
be to use dump_cis to extract the CIS data from a card,
and to examine the CIS files distributed with the PCMCIA
source tree in etc/cis/.
- The basic structure of a CIS is a list of tuple descrip
tions. Anything following a hash mark (``#'') is treated
as a comment. A multifunction CIS can be described with
the notation: - [common tuple list]
mfc {[tuple list for function 0] - }, {
[tuple list for function 1]
- }
OPTIONS
- -o outfile
- Write the packed tuple data to the specified file.
FILES
/etc/pcmcia/cis Standard location for packed CIS files
AUTHOR
- David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net SEE ALSO
dump_cis(8), cardmgr(8), pcmcia(5).