Is there any particular reason this isn't in MAKEDEV?  Granted, people keep
saying bpp is "experimental", but even experimental stuff should have
/dev/whatever created so people can try it out.  As of today, only
magma-based bpp device files are created.

I'd rather someone more familiar with bpp add this to MAKEDEV, but if
necessary, I'll do it (as opposed to describing the mknod commands in the
FAQ).

  -- MW

At 6:19 PM -0500 2/24/02, der Mouse wrote:

:)> I'm attempting to configure my SPARCstation 4 as a print server, but
:)> I have just noticed I don't have /dev/lp* on the box.
:)
:)> [root@sparc4/dev # dmesg|grep bpp
:)> bpp0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xc800000 level 2 (ipl 3): rev 2
:)
:)/sys/arch/sparc/sparc/conf.c will tell you the major number you need;
:)in my conf.c, for example, searching for bpp finds
:)
:)	cdev_gen_init(NMBPP,mbpp),	/* 101 */
:)and
:)	cdev_gen_init(NBPP,bpp),	/* 107: on-board parallel port */
:)
:)101 is for parallel ports on Magma cards; you want 107 (at least if
:)your conf.c is the same as mine).  Searching for 107 in /dev/MAKEDEV
:)will tell you whether such devices are created automatically; in my
:)case, grep turns up no hits, so it's up to me to create the devices:
:)
:)# mknod /dev/lpt0 c 107 0
:)# chown (something appropriate) /dev/lpt0
:)# chmod (something appropriate) /dev/lpt0
:)
:)If you get hits in MAKEDEV, they may still be in a section that isn't
:)run my "MAKEDEV all", but at least you don't have to do the mknod
:)manually.
:)
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