Hi Bill,

On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:40:44PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > I've got a related (similar?) problem. I'm trying to get the parallel
> > port of my classic (running 1.4.1) to work. I compiled a kernel using
> > 'bpp* at sbus0 slot ? offset ?' in the config file. This gets me a
> > 'bpp0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xc800000 level 2 (ipl 3): rev 2' while
> > booting. But which device (major/minor number) do I have to use? Or
> > are there any other things to do? Any documentation about this
> > (besides the kernel source ;)).
> 
> Well, the kernel source is definitive. :-)
> 
> >From /sys/arch/sparc/sparc/config.c, bpp is device 107. I'm not sure about
> minor #'s.
I actually tried this out some days ago (mknod /dev/bpp0 c 107 {0,1},
I read config.c :-)). But this lead to a kernel panic when accessing 
the device. So I thought that'll be better to ask next time...better
save than sorry :)

Thanx anyway,
 Oliver

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