On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:18 -0700
> From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>     <[email protected]>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 7i43/7i33/5i20 questions
> 
> Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>>
>>> Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>>>> ITE 8875           Trying to figure out how to enable
>>>>                          (comes up with all ports disabled)
>>> Sorry to hijack the thread, but is this an "Arty-style" disable, like
>>> Sasa Vilic reported on emc-users recently?
>>>
>>> If so try to poke it via sysfs or setpci to enable it before accessing it.
>>>
>>
>> No, I think I/O was enabled, its just that the 8875 has some global port
>> enable register, and I cant find any chip docs, and since I'm testing with
>> DOS, its a little tricky to poke at all the right places to get it to work.
>
> Those tricky hardware manufacturers, eh?  ;-)
>
> The Linux parport driver has a special section for dealing with the ITE
> 8872, maybe it'd be applicable to the 8875 too?

Yes I think they are all the same

>
> See line 2442 of parport_pc.c:
>
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/parport/parport_pc.c;h=96f3bdf0ec4bd4a04aaad15647e48c005a31d2d3;hb=4a6908a3a050aacc9c3a2f36b276b46c0629ad91>

I'll take a look
>
>
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> Sebastian Kuzminsky
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