From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 14:30:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11138 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles355.castles.com [208.214.167.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11121 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20734; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806282129.OAA20734@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: boia01@gel.usherb.ca cc: Mike Smith , Zach Heilig , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus is broken. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 08:33:09 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:29:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > No, I don't. I have almost the same configuration as Zach: > > > > > > controller ppbus0 # ppbus stuff > > > controller vpo0 at ppbus0 # Iomega ZIP support > > > device nlpt0 at ppbus0 # printer support > > > device ppi0 at ppbus0 # ppbus interface > > > #device plip0 at ppbus0 # PLIP support > > > controller ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7 vector ppcintr > > > > Then please try with 'tty' and report your results. The entry in LINT > > was wrong; it's less wrong now (but still not entirely right). > > > > I added the 'tty' argument and I don't get the 'little bursts of garbage' > anymore. Thank you for your help. Thank Nicolas for pointing it out to Zach initially, and blame me for getting it wrong in LINT to start with. 8( > BTW: Is there any plan to support dynamic device attachment on the ppbus? > (ie. like plugging/unpluggin a ZIP drive to an already working system) Not at this point in time. Reprobing the bus is a fairly difficult thing to do "right". -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message