Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:10:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: so, what does BOOTMFS install kernel need a parallel port for? Message-ID: <20000722101023.A26964@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211618050.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:18:45PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211618050.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:18:45PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > If we're concerned with size on floppies, what is > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > plip0: cannot reserve interrupt, failed. > ppc0: interrupting at ISA irq 7 > > this doing in the install kernel? I guess the idea is to allow PLIP installs. But I agree we could loose it in favor of something more useful. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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