From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 25 13:29: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814AA37BEF6 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00801; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005252031.NAA00801@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "David Clarke" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUNIX PCI Parallel Card with FreeBSD 4.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 2000 08:27:54 +1200." <004601bfc687$baead520$0201a8c0@eskimo.cm-solutions.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:31:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > -----Original Message----- > > >> I was told that there wasn't any support for PCI parallel cards. And > >> that wasn't any active work on support PCI. The recommendation was and > >> ISA card or a USB->Parallel cable. They cost around $25. > > > >OTOH, supporting this card would be pretty straightforward if it's really > >just a "normal" printer port with a PCI bus interface. > > >From the docs that came with the card... > Parallel Chipset: SIN1888, Hardware FIFO are 32 bytes > Compatible chips: ACC3203, ST-78C36 and HT6535 > IEEE standard: ECP/EPP/SPP/BPP (PS-II) interface > Max speed: Up to 21.4MB/sec > > >From the linux setup info, they seem to imply that the ports on the card can > be used simply by telling the driver code that the port exists at IO address > 0xd400 instead of the usual 0x378, for example, and is used in a polled (no > IRQ) mode. > > Can we specify this in the Kernel config file ?. I thought we could in an > earlier version of FreeBSD, but version 4.0 does not show this in LINT. Sort of; it's not easy to get the information you need. It'd be easier to write a PCI bus attachment for the 'ppc' driver; if you can get documentation on the card and a sample to someone, it could probably be done in a few days. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message