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SubjectRe: [PATCH] parport_pc: Also enable driver for PCI systems
Hi Maciej,

CC Niklas

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 1:45 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> wrote:
> Nowadays PC-style parallel ports come in the form of PCI and PCIe option
> cards and there are some combined parallel/serial option cards as well
> that we handle in the parport subsystem. There is nothing in particular
> that would prevent them from being used in any system equipped with PCI
> or PCIe connectivity, except that we do not permit the PARPORT_PC config
> option to be selected for platforms for which ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
> has not been set for.
>
> The only PCI platforms that actually can't make use of PC-style parallel
> port hardware are those newer PCIe systems that have no support for I/O
> cycles in the host bridge, required by such parallel ports. An example
> of such a host bridge is the POWER9 PHB4 device, but it is an exception
> rather than the norm. Also it is not clear whether the serial port side

Note that this hardware dependency is being addressed in
"[RFC 00/32] Kconfig: Introduce HAS_IOPORT and LEGACY_PCI options"
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211227164317.4146918-1-schnelle@linux.ibm.com/

> --- linux-macro.orig/drivers/parport/Kconfig
> +++ linux-macro/drivers/parport/Kconfig
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ if PARPORT
>
> config PARPORT_PC
> tristate "PC-style hardware"
> - depends on ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
> + depends on ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT || PCI
> help
> You should say Y here if you have a PC-style parallel port. All
> IBM PC compatible computers and some Alphas have PC-style
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ config PARPORT_PC_FIFO
>
> config PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO
> bool "SuperIO chipset support"
> - depends on PARPORT_PC && !PARISC
> + depends on ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT && PARPORT_PC && !PARISC
> help
> Saying Y here enables some probes for Super-IO chipsets in order to
> find out things like base addresses, IRQ lines and DMA channels. It
>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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