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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:00:15 +0100
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP newppbus for beta-testing
Message-ID:  <20000104210015.63255@breizh.free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3870F784.2B1E8126@altavista.net>; from Maxim Sobolev on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:24:52PM %2B0200
References:  <20000103004910.41467@armor.free.fr> <3870F784.2B1E8126@altavista.net>

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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.

>
>Count on my vote to commit it before branch split because IMHO it should be
>considered as a bugfix rather that a new feature.
>
>-Maxim
>

Nicholas

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