Parallel ports

[Emery Hemingway]

Ok, to clarify, anything with a parallel port is a no-go for Sculpt. Sculpt
require IOMMU hardware, I can't say when the IOMMUs appeared, but its safe
to assume you will not find an IOMMU and a parallel port on the the same
machine.

I still have a favorable opinion of the Dell Optiplex line of desktops, and
I would consider running Genode on one myself, but this would be an "OS"
different from Sculpt. A kernel other than NOVA would need to be selected,
there would be no need for UEFI support, and the ACPI setup might need to
be tweaked. It could be a fun project for the weekends, but Plan9Front
would run at least as well on the same hardware.

Regards,
Emery

On Friday, July 6, 2018 11:25:23 AM CEST, Emery Hemingway wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> As a rule of thumb, anything with a parallel port is unsupported hardware.
>
> Cheers,
> Emery
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