From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 8 11:10:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2.free.fr (postfix2.free.fr [212.27.32.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446D914EE0; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from free.fr (paris11-nas3-44-149.dial.proxad.net [212.27.44.149]) by postfix2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E811374260; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 20:10:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from nsouch@localhost) by free.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01930; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:18:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nsouch) Message-ID: <20000108211838.12590@breizh.free.fr> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:18:38 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP newppbus for beta-testing References: <20000103004910.41467@armor.free.fr> <3870F784.2B1E8126@altavista.net> <20000104210015.63255@breizh.free.fr> <3873C990.70D294F7@altavista.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3873C990.70D294F7@altavista.net>; from Maxim Sobolev on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:45:36AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:45:36AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >Nicolas Souchu wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:24:52PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> > >> >Nicolas Souchu wrote: >> > >> >> Hi there! >> >> >> >> FOR ANYBODY THAT USES ZIP/PRINTER/PLIP ON THE PARALLEL PORT UNDER -current >> >> >> >> A major ppbus(4) release is available for beta-testing. >> > >> >Good work! Now plip, which has been broken for ages, works perfectly - no more >> >lockups, spontaneous reboots, panics, etc! To test it I even managed to get X >> >and NFS working over plip line, things which was impossible with oldppbus. >> >> Nice! But, sure the 'net' interrupt level mask (at the ppc0 declaration) >> in you MACHINE config file would have done the job. > >Unfortunately it is not a solution because net,tty and bio keywords went away from >config(8) long time ago... I've only received `syntax error' message. Ooops! A really bad thing. I did not notice it. They did not use to manage compatibility issues like this before?! > >-Maxim > > > -- nsouch@free.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message