On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Greg Earle wrote:

> > I have access to three SPARCstation 2's at work that I'm just dying to 
> > install NetBSD on.  Unfortunately, two are going to be people's desktop 
> > machines (who need to run SunOS).  The remaining machine is sitting on my 
> > desk and I can do whatever I want to it, with one problem:  It's hooked 
> > up to a LaserJet III printer via a SPARCprinter SBus card.  The driver is 
> > a SunOS loadable kernel module.  Does NetBSD (either 1.0 or -current) 
> > support this kind of parallel port?  [...]  Any suggestions?
> 
> There's no support for this card (specifically, the SUNW,bpp device), to my
> knowledge.
>
> Why not move the card to one of the 2 SPARCstation 2's that have to remain
> SunOS systems?

Okay, here's a silly thought.  Since the SBus is so "Plug 'n Play" and 
the SPARC 20 is running Solaris (autoconfiguring kernel), I'm going to 
try popping the printer card into that.  Kind of silly, since the SPARC 20 
already has a parallel port, but if all goes according to plan, it will 
settle in as /dev/bpp1, or in Solaris lingo:

/devices/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/SUNW,bpp@f,4800000:bpp1

:-)

> (You mean there'll be a 2nd NetBSD/SPARC system at JPL now?  Cool  (-: )
> 
> 	- Greg

Hopefully..  Actually, in my section I already have a Pentium running 
Linux, and another Pentium running FreeBSD.  You might say I like free 
operating systems.. :-)

---Jake Hamby
 jehamby@lightside.com