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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:03:07 -0400
From:      Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
To:        "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@ibm.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Parallel Port/Printer Code
Message-ID:  <20000616030307.F4307@radicalmedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <3948CF48.B5D845EA@ibm.net>; from Andrew M. Miklic on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:42:48AM -0600
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Update:

It would seem that if we could relocate the parallel port i/o space to a
more standard (and non-conflicting) location, say 0x378, we could access
all 8 registers without being clobbered by VGA.  Then, we could do ECP/EPP
to our heart's content, and support many more devices (like the ZIP).

I've just read the relevant parts of the 37C935 datasheet, and it is fully
PnP capable in that any of its devices can have their resources reassigned/
moved.  This is great news!  There are now two courses of action...
Either there exists a way in SRM to reassign the i/o range (maybe with isacfg,
which I'm going to try), or, by accessing the 37C935 configuration registers
to do the job, the details of which are outlined in the datasheet.

Wish me luck, I'll let you know how it goes.

-Mark



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