On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:21:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> When the new parallel port stuff was put several months ago, my
> machine stopped working. I had to set flags to 0x40 to make it
> work again. Flags of 0x40 force the driver to use the most
> basic probes possible. It was put in because a number of people's
> machines stopped working.
>
> It looks like Peter removed the flags 0x40 in rev 1.228 of GENERIC
> on Jan 14.
Specific chipset detection is now disabled by default since most of the
chipsets detected on new MB are not recognised by ppc. A MACHINE option
shall be set to activate chipset detection.
See http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html for more info.
[...]
>
> David, try putting flags 0x40 back in and see if that fixes your
> problem.
0x40 has the same effect only if chipset specific detection is activated
at compile time by the correct option. Otherwise the action is null.
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