parport0: PC-style at 0x378<3>parport: multiple DMA detected. Huh?

Steven Ireland (stevei@earthworks.com.au)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 05:07:21 GMT


When booting recent kernels, I've been receiving the messages

> parport0: PC-style at 0x378<3>parport: multiple DMA detected. Huh?
> parport: multiple DMA detected. Huh?
> [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]

followed shortly after by

> lp0: using parport0 (polling)

Is this something I should be worried about ? I intend to connect a ZIP drive to
the port tomorrow.

I have no parport= commands on my kernel command line.

My system is a dual PPro-200 SMP system and the parallel port on the motherboard
is set up in the bios as

ECP, io=0x378, irq=7, dma=3

Chipset details are

> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Intel 82441FX Natoma (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.

Relevant .config details

>CONFIG_M586=y
>CONFIG_MODULES=y
>CONFIG_NET=y
>CONFIG_PCI=y
>CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
>CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
>CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
>CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
>CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
>CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
>CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
>CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
>CONFIG_PARPORT=y
>CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
>CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
>
>CONFIG_SCSI=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
>CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
>CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
>CONFIG_SCSI_PPA_HAVE_PEDANTIC=2
>
>CONFIG_VT=y
>CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>CONFIG_SERIAL=y
>CONFIG_PRINTER=y
>CONFIG_MOUSE=y
>CONFIG_PSMOUSE=

/proc/parport/0/devices ( not sure if the n
> lp

/proc/parport/0/hardware
> base: 0x378
> irq: none
> dma: none
> modes: SPP,ECP,ECPPS2

/proc/parport/0/irq
> none

/proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 2824 3025 IO-APIC timer
> 1: 104 34 IO-APIC keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT PIC cascade
> 12: 0 0 IO-APIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 4 0 XT PIC fpu
> 14: 1288 540 IO-APIC ide0
> 15: 0 5 IO-APIC ide1
> 16: 21 21 IO-APIC aic7xxx
> 17: 80 80 IO-APIC NE2000
>NMI: 0
>IPI:

/proc/ioports
>0000-001f : dma1
>0020-003f : pic1
>0040-005f : timer
>0060-006f : keyboard
>0080-008f : dma page reg
>00a0-00bf : pic2
>00c0-00df : dma2
>00f0-00ff : fpu
>0170-0177 : ide1
>01f0-01f7 : ide0
>02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
>0376-0376 : ide1
>0378-037a : parport0
>03c0-03df : vga+
>03e8-03ef : serial(auto)
>03f6-03f6 : ide0
>03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
>0778-077a : parport0
>dc00-dcbe : aic7xxx
>df40-df5f : NE2000
>ffa0-ffa7 : ide0
>ffa8-ffaf : ide

/proc/dma
> 4: cascade

Steve.

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