SLES-11: Finding the Parallel Port

I’ve got a few Supermicro P8SCi motherboards that I’m using as Xen hosts and I’d like to configure configure PCI-passthrough so that I can create a CUPS VM. However, I can’t seem to find the parallel port in the output of lspci (so I’m not able to hide the parallel port from Dom0). I believe that the parallel port is discovered during system start up:

san1:~ # dmesg | grep parp
   24.076657] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
   24.076856] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[3494671.839064] parport_pc 00:09: disabled
[3494671.861520] parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
[3494671.861528] parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
[3494671.861532] parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port there!
[3494671.861549] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[3494671.961841] lp0: using parport0 (polling).
[3494672.007485] parport_pc 00:09: activated
[3494672.007495] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[3494672.007555] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[3494672.122588] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[3494673.167681] parport_pc 00:09: disabled
[3494673.188811] parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
[3494673.188819] parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
[3494673.188823] parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port there!
[3494673.188839] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]

san1:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7220/E7221 Memory Controller Hub (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7220/E7221 PCI Express Root Port (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation E7221 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)
01:00.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 6700/6702PXH I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller A (rev 09)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
02:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)

Am I overlooking something here?

Eric Pretorious
Truckee, CA

On 3/3/2013 1:26 AM, epretorious wrote:
>
> I’ve got a few ‘Supermicro P8SCi motherboards’
> (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/p4/e7221/p8sci.cfm) that
> I’m using as Xen hosts and I’d like to configure configure
> PCI-passthrough so that I can create a CUPS VM. However, I can’t seem to
> find the parallel port in the output of lspci (-so I’m not able to hide
> the parallel port from Dom0-). I believe that the parallel port is
> discovered during system start up:
<snip>
> --------------------
>
> Am I overlooking something here?
>
> Eric Pretorious
> Truckee, CA
>
>
Eric;

You have posted this in the openSUSE forum, openSUSE is the free community based
version of SuSE. There may be someone here who can answer your question, but
the Enterprise SuSE (SLED/SLES) has their own forum here:
https://forums.suse.com

I think you would be more likely to get a meaningful reply if you posted there.


P.V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you” Red Green

Closed.

This is a SLES question and should go in the SUSE forums as indicated above.