[Muscle] PCI smart card readers on Linux

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Andreas Jellinghaus <aj at dungeon.inka.de> [070720 09:15]:
> creating a smart card reader as PCI device is total overkill :)

I don't really have a choice in the matter.

> today there are some laptops with build in smart card readers
> that are connected via usb. those should work.

That is my problem.

02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller

Someone suggested that there may be a way to expose a serial interface
to userspace that would let the gemcore serial drivers talk to the PCI
device as if was connected by serial.  I like this, as it saves me a lot
of work.... but I need to be able talk to the device first.  A register
map would be great!

> in total: usb smart card readers work fine for everyone and should
> be your preferred method, unless you have some real special situation.

In a perfect world you would have designed my laptop.  However, TI made
this PCI SmartCard chip, HP used it, and I cannot find specs for it.

-Bart

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