From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 13 14:46:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE0D14E6D; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01582; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905132143.OAA01582@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Fieber Cc: Peter Schwenk , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC 3.2-BETA kernel and printing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 10:16:19 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:43:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > > > I just wanted to let the developers know that I have trouble printing > > with the 3.2-BETA kernel using the GENERIC configuration file. I print > > ... > > > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 > > > > line to > > > > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 > > This still hasn't been resolved? If not, we have taken one step > forward and two steps back with respect to parallel ports. What > is the rational of choosing net over tty in GENERIC? The net > option has caused a lot of grief among people who want to print. > If it changes to tty, what breaks (and who will that > inconvenience)? It probably breaks PLIP, ie. network installs for laptops. I'm still not really sure why the interrupt mask isn't manipulated by the ppbus code according to active use; I presume just because Nicolas has been too busy to take it on. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message