Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43/7i33/5i20 questions

[Sebastian K. <se...@hi...>]

Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> 
>> Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>>> ITE 8875  		Trying to figure out how to enable
>>>                          (comes up with all ports disabled)
>> Sorry to hijack the thread, but is this an "Arty-style" disable, like
>> Sasa Vilic reported on emc-users recently?
>>
>> If so try to poke it via sysfs or setpci to enable it before accessing it.
>>
> 
> No, I think I/O was enabled, its just that the 8875 has some global port 
> enable register, and I cant find any chip docs, and since I'm testing with 
> DOS, its a little tricky to poke at all the right places to get it to work.

Those tricky hardware manufacturers, eh?  ;-)

The Linux parport driver has a special section for dealing with the ITE 
8872, maybe it'd be applicable to the 8875 too?

See line 2442 of parport_pc.c:

<http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/parport/parport_pc.c;h=96f3bdf0ec4bd4a04aaad15647e48c005a31d2d3;hb=4a6908a3a050aacc9c3a2f36b276b46c0629ad91>


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