Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:49:36 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@ibm.net> Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: parallel ports on alpha in 4.1? Message-ID: <20000719004936.A4534@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <3974A0E1.D7723C01@ibm.net>; from miklic@ibm.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:24:34PM -0600 References: <20000718201356.C2427@freebie.demon.nl> <3974A0E1.D7723C01@ibm.net>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:24:34PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > I've got diffs, and they're just waiting for Doug Rabson to submit them...I > don't know if they'll make it in time for 4.1, though... Doug tonight put ppc support into the RELENG_4 branch, so 4.1R should have the ppc support included. I have not checked the exact nature of what he MFCed, just saw the commit message go by. > By the way, for anyone interested, i've just finished support for native > ppc_detect for the Miata platforms (National Semiconductor 873xx SuperI/O), > and so we now have code to provide a parallel port that is capable of being > relocated to 0x378 (and fully capable of ECP/EPP, thanks to Mark abene's > work)--the chip actually supports being relocated to 0x278 as well, but > there's a little more work involved, and since any port other than 0x3bc is > what is needed to do ECP/EPP support without wiping the screen, this > _should_ suffice for now... -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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