From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 5 11:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2.free.fr (postfix2.free.fr [212.27.32.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494E31541E; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@free.fr) Received: from free.fr (paris11-nas4-46-6.dial.proxad.net [212.27.46.6]) by postfix2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F72A7450A; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:11:16 +0100 (MET) Received: (from nsouch@localhost) by free.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00866; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:00:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nsouch) Message-ID: <20000104210015.63255@breizh.free.fr> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:00:15 +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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3870F784.2B1E8126@altavista.net>; from Maxim Sobolev on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:24:52PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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-current" in the body of the message