On 23-Apr-2003 David Euresti wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have an ITE 8872 PCI-X card that I'm putting into a compaq DL580.
> Unfortunately when I try to add the module I get this in dmesg.
>
> initing superIO
> sio_ite_8872_probe()
> parport_pc: unknown ITE887x 15
> parport_pc: please mail 'lspci -nvv' output to Rich.Liu@ite.com.tw
Hi
I looked into the ITE887x support a few moths ago, when I was trying to get
the ECP mode on an ITE8875 PCI parport card working.
(1) I managed to find Rich Liu: he no longer works at ITE, and says he can
no longer support these cards in any way.
(2) There is in fact extensive documentation available for these chips at
ite: see http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html
(3): The Linux ITE support in parport_pc.c only activates the EPP mode: from
the ITE docs I managed to easily find how to activate ECP mode, but any attempt
to use it crashes the system (which explains why Rich Liu only activated EPP).
This occurred when interrupt use got activated -I suspect that the linux
ECP support for PIO (non DMA) ECP in parport_pc.c is broken, rather than this
being a problem with the ITE chip. The card works fine in EPP mode.
The error you mention is at the beginning of the ITE support, where the type of
card is identified by reading the contents of some registers. All this is
quite well documented in the available ITE specs.
You probably want to just give up on the card, but you might like to check out
the specs to see if its just some small problem you can fix.
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> I modified it to print out the type that it's switching on.
>
> Here is the relevant part for lspci -nvv
> 0a:02.0 Class 0700: 1283:8872 (rev 01) (prog-if 02)
> Control: I/O Mem BusMaster SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr Step
> ping- SERR FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B ParErr- DEVSEL+AD0-medium
> +AD4-TAbort- +ADw-TAbort - +ADw-MAbort- +AD4-SERR- +ADw-PERR-
> Latency: 0
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 24
> Region 0: I/O ports at a400 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
> Region 1: I/O ports at a800 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
> Region 2: I/O ports at ac00 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
> Region 3: I/O ports at b000 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
> Region 4: I/O ports at b400 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
> Region 5: I/O ports at b800 +AFs-size+AD0-256+AF0-
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> I tried emailing Rich.Liu@ite.com.tw but it didn't work. neither did
> richliu@poorman.org
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> Can anyone here help?
>
> Thanks,
> David Euresti
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