puc, ppc and MosChip SemiConductors Nm9805 Parallel Port Adapter

[David Taylor]

Hi,

I've got an amd64 box with 1 built-in parallel port, which works fine.

I also bought an add-on parallel port adapter card (a MosChip
SemiConductors Nm9805 chip).  After discovering puc, I enabled
device puc and the card is now detected by puc, but doesn't
appear to be picked up by the ppc driver.

I'm running -STABLE from about 24 hours ago.

In dmesg:
puc0: <NetMos NM9805 1284 Printer port> port
	0xd000-0xd00f,0xd400-0xd407,0xd800-0xd807,
	0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe000-0xe007,0xe400-0xe407
	irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci0
puc: name: NetMos NM9805 1284 Printer port
puc0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4
	at 0xe400 port rid 16 bst 0, start e400, end e407
puc: Using ppc0
puc: type 2, bar 10, offset 0

In pciconf -lv:
puc0 at pci0:8:0:  class=0x078000 card=0x00101000
	chip=0x98059710 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'MosChip Semiconductors (Was: Netmos Technology)'
    device   = 'Nm9805 Parallel Port Adapter'
    class    = simple comms

However, despite the 'using ppc0' line, ppc0 is never mentioned again.

The on-board parallel port is allocated to ppc1:
ppc1: <ECP parallel printer port>
	port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc1: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc1: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc1
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C> MLC,PCL,PML
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

However, ppc doesnt appear to exist:
# sysctl dev.ppc.0
sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.ppc.0'

Since the card is detected, and the puc driver claims to be 'using ppc0',
I'm not really sure what to try now.  Any one have any ideas?

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-- 
David Taylor