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27.Dd March 5, 1998
28.Dt PPC 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm ppc
32.Nd Parallel Port Chipset driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "device ppc"
35.Pp
36In
37.Pa /boot/device.hints :
38.Cd hint.ppc.0.at="isa"
39.Cd hint.ppc.0.irq="7"
40.Pp
41For one or more PPBUS busses:
42.Cd "device ppbus"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides low level support to various parallel port chipsets for the
47.Xr ppbus 4
48system.
49.Pp
50During the probe phase,
51.Nm
52detects parallel port chipsets and initializes
53private data according to their operating mode: COMPATIBLE,
54NIBBLE, PS/2, EPP, ECP and other mixed modes.
55If a mode is provided at startup through the
56.Va flags
57variable of the boot
58interface, the operating mode of the chipset is forced according to
59.Va flags
60and the hardware supported modes.
61.Pp
62During the attach phase,
63.Nm
64allocates a ppbus structure, initializes it and calls the ppbus
65attach function.
66.Ss Supported flags
67.Bl -item -offset indent
68.It
69bits 0-3: chipset forced mode(s)
70.Bd -literal
71PPB_COMPATIBLE  0x0     /* Centronics compatible mode */
72PPB_NIBBLE      0x1     /* reverse 4 bit mode */
73PPB_PS2         0x2     /* PS/2 byte mode */
74PPB_EPP         0x4     /* EPP mode, 32 bit */
75PPB_ECP         0x8     /* ECP mode */
76.Ed
77.Pp
78And any mixed values.
79.It
80bit 4: EPP protocol (0 EPP 1.9, 1 EPP 1.7)
81.It
82bit 5: activate IRQ (1 IRQ disabled, 0 IRQ enabled)
83.It
84bit 6: disable chipset specific detection
85.It
86bit 7: disable FIFO detection
87.El
88.Ss Supported chipsets
89Some parallel port chipsets are explicitly supported:
90detection and initialisation code has been written according to
91their datasheets.
92.Bl -bullet -offset indent
93.It
94SMC FDC37C665GT and FDC37C666GT chipsets
95.It
96Natsemi PC873xx-family (PC87332 and PC87306)
97.It
98Winbond W83877xx-family (W83877F and W83877AF)
99.It
100SMC-like chipsets with mixed modes (see
101.Xr ppbus 4 )
102.El
103.Ss Adding support to a new chipset
104You may want to add support for the newest chipset your motherboard was
105sold with.
106For the ISA bus, just retrieve the specs of the chipset and write the
107corresponding
108.Fn ppc_mychipset_detect ""
109function.
110Then add an entry to the general purpose
111.Fn ppc_detect ""
112function.
113.Pp
114Your
115.Fn ppc_mychipset_detect ""
116function should ensure that if the mode field of the
117.Va flags
118boot variable is not null, then the operating
119mode is forced to the given mode and no other mode is available and
120ppb->ppb_avm field contains the available modes of the chipset.
121.Sh SEE ALSO
122.Xr ppbus 4 ,
123.Xr ppi 4 ,
124.Xr device.hints 5
125.Sh HISTORY
126The
127.Nm
128manual page first appeared in
129.Fx 3.0 .
130.Sh AUTHORS
131This manual page was written by
132.An Nicolas Souchu .
133.Sh BUGS
134The chipset detection process may corrupt your chipset configuration.
135You may
136disable chipset specific detection by using the above flags.
137