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Q: Ultra 5 parallel port

Post by Stuart Butterfie » Wed, 23 Sep 1998 04:00:00



Anyone out there have any experience of programming the parallel
port on an Ultra 5?

The main problem is that although I'm connecting a 1284-compatible
device, the ecpp driver refuses to recognise it as such and drops
me into plain old Centronics mode, which I am then unable to change.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

I'm not helped by the fact that the online manual pages don't
seem to correspond to the C include files, despite the patch
which reportedly fixes this already being installed :-(

Any advice, comments, code snippets etc. would be much appreciated.

Stuart

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Q: Ultra 5 parallel port

Post by Woof Dunla » Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:00:00



> Anyone out there have any experience of programming the parallel
> port on an Ultra 5?

> The main problem is that although I'm connecting a 1284-compatible
> device, the ecpp driver refuses to recognise it as such and drops
> me into plain old Centronics mode, which I am then unable to change.

> Has anyone else had similar experiences?

> I'm not helped by the fact that the online manual pages don't
> seem to correspond to the C include files, despite the patch
> which reportedly fixes this already being installed :-(

> Any advice, comments, code snippets etc. would be much appreciated.

> Stuart

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> Stuart Butterfield                      T: +44 (0)1293 815581
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Hi Stuart,

  Sun has a patch for ecpp parallel port problems.  Have you applied the
recommended patches?
http://sunsolve1.Sun.COM/sunsolve/us/pubpatches/patches.html

Bye,
  Andy Dunlap


 
 
 
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Q: Ultra 5 parallel port

Post by Stuart Butterfie » Tue, 29 Sep 1998 04:00:00


:
:   Sun has a patch for ecpp parallel port problems.  Have you applied the
: recommended patches?
: http://sunsolve1.Sun.COM/sunsolve/us/pubpatches/patches.html

The latest patch is 105741-05. We have up to 105741-03 installed,
but the problems described in the patch readmes for 04/05 don't
sound like the ones I'm experiencing.

That said, it's probably worth a try since the 03 patch supposedly
fixes conflicts between the man page descriptions and ioctls, but
in fact, doesn't seem to.

--
Stuart

 
 
 
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1. Some Qs about parallel port programming (in EPP mode)

Hi all,

I am a newie in Linux device driver programming. I need to write a
parallel port driver in EPP mode and have read the parallel port
spec. in the past two weeks. However, I still get confused and hope
for the help.

1. Is it right that I just write/read the PARPORT_PORT_BASE+4, the
   hardware will do the EPP handshake itself and transfer the data?
   If not, any bits in the register I need to (de)active?

2. I have read lp.c in Linux Kernel Source and found the following
   code. Why it use do { ... } while (0) to enclose the actual code?

   #define w_dtr(x,y)  \
    do { parport_write_data(lp_table[(x)].dev->port, (y)); } while (0)

3. Have any web sites discuss how to program the parallel port driver
   in EPP mode?

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