From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 25 13:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B8737B690 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djclarke@cm-solutions.co.nz) Received: from eskimo (smtp.epizza.co.nz [203.96.144.146]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e4PKdUD24566 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:39:30 +1200 Message-ID: <005901bfc689$bda9bc20$0201a8c0@eskimo.cm-solutions.co.nz> Reply-To: "David Clarke" From: "David Clarke" To: Subject: Re: SUNIX PCI Parallel Card with FreeBSD 4.0 Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:42:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> >> I was told that there wasn't any support for PCI parallel cards. And >> >> that wasn't any active work on support PCI. The recommendation was and >> >> ISA card or a USB->Parallel cable. They cost around $25. >> > >> >OTOH, supporting this card would be pretty straightforward if it's really >> >just a "normal" printer port with a PCI bus interface. >> >> >From the docs that came with the card... >> Parallel Chipset: SIN1888, Hardware FIFO are 32 bytes >> Compatible chips: ACC3203, ST-78C36 and HT6535 >> IEEE standard: ECP/EPP/SPP/BPP (PS-II) interface >> Max speed: Up to 21.4MB/sec >> >> >From the linux setup info, they seem to imply that the ports on the card can >> be used simply by telling the driver code that the port exists at IO address >> 0xd400 instead of the usual 0x378, for example, and is used in a polled (no >> IRQ) mode. >> >> Can we specify this in the Kernel config file ?. I thought we could in an >> earlier version of FreeBSD, but version 4.0 does not show this in LINT. > >Sort of; it's not easy to get the information you need. It'd be easier >to write a PCI bus attachment for the 'ppc' driver; if you can get >documentation on the card and a sample to someone, it could probably be >done in a few days. If you (or someone else) can point me in the right direction and maybe an example, I am happy to give it a try. I have done some SS7 driver code development in a previous life. > >-- >\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith >\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message