On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote:
> suspect the worst and indeed somewhere on RH site found that parallel port on > sbus SPARCs is listed as unsupported. So I'd like to try 2.2.x kernel hopping > it's less unsupported there than in 2.0.35 ;-) The problem now is that all the > kernel images in Debian (both slink and potato) are compiled without BPP > option, and I have no chances to compile it myself on the poor SparcClassic. The BPP driver should work in very new 2.2 kernels, and there's parport support in new 2.3 kernels (though I don't think the new 2.3 kernels work on sparc32 yet) > custom-build kernel with this option enabled? Have anyone ever had a success > with connecting a printer to a Sparc/Linux box? Yes. The fix for the BPP driver is simple. Find the struct bpp_regs and add __volatile__ to the declarations of all the variables in it. -D
