[parisc-linux] Status of parport driver in 2.6.20.1

[Randolph Chung]

Hrm, all the automatic probing in parport_pc is causing the HPMC. Can 
you do a quick experiment and boot the kernel with "parport=0"? The 
SuperIO driver should still register the parallel port.

randolph

Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Randolph Chung wrote:
>>> I am running a 2.6.20.1 kernel on a C3600 workstation and want to 
>>> hook up a printer to the parallel port. But modprobe'ing parport-pc 
>>> or parport-serial gives me:
>>
>> I think this uses suckyio. Can you post your boot log somewhere? I 
>> don't know if anybody has tried this recently but it did work at some 
>> point.
>>
>> Also, output of lspci -v and cat /proc/interrupts may be helpful
>>
>> For HPMC, you can recover the some trace data from the boot console. 
>> See http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/kernelbug-howto.html
> 
> I have build a kernel with parport support (the first try was with 
> parport as module) and was able to get a backtrace:
> 
> http://web.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s1054849/dmesg.and.hpmc.txt
> http://web.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s1054849/pci.txt
> 
> The latter is from the same kernel without parport.
> 
> Regards,
> Julian
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