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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 23:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
To:        Kyle Rollin <klined@orbimus.dhs.org>
Cc:        "David L. Hays, Jr." <elfkinz@elfland.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problem with sound card and lpt port on non-standard IRQs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0105312323030.44120-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106010157550.37565-100000@orbimus.dhs.org>

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Kyle Rollin wrote:

> <snip>
>
> > > -----
> > > Kernel Config file:
> > > # Parallel port
> > > device         ppc0    at isa? port? irq 5 drq 3
> > > device         ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
> > > device         lpt             # Printer
> >
> > Why do you have a DMA request value for a parallel port device?
>
> </snip>
>
> Most modern LPT ports (ECP, EPP, etc) require a DMA address. This is for
> bi-directional communication with the printer, so the printer can directly
> access the spooled pages in memory, etc.

Fair enough. I haven't done any parallel port work, but
I thought these to be PIO devices. Nevertheless, I don't
see any explicit DMA support for the ppc device, at least
in 4.3-STABLE (which is all I happen to have here at the
moment).

>
> -Kyle Rollin
> klined@orbimus.dhs.org

.cr


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