From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:20:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159784424.4801.26.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002094959.GA13986@aepfle.de>
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:49 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Does aynone know if the hardware that is enabled with
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is available on PCI devices? The functions
> detect_and_report_winbond() and detect_and_report_smsc() poke at random
> legacy IO ports. I just wonder if they may also find the hardware if
> they come from a PCI device.
> If they are i386 only, the config option should probably be i386 (or
> whatever) only.
They're not i386 only. There's plenty of non-i386 machines with SuperIO
chips in. They're the easiest way to bolt floppy/parallel/IrDA/serial
support onto a board.
But we really shouldn't have individual drivers poking at the magic
configuration addresses to find SuperIO chips. There should be support
for those _separately_ -- and then the parport/irda/serial drivers can
all consult it as appropriate, rather than poking directly at the
hardware.
I did make a start on drivers/pnp/superio once, but didn't get very far
before I got distracted. Start with lssuperio.
--
dwmw2
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2006-10-02 9:49 CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO Olaf Hering
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