Parallel ports

[Nobody III]

What part of Sculpt depends on IOMMU hardware? I'm asking because I'm
trying to debug interrupt-related issues with the IOMMU disabled to
simplify things.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Emery Hemingway <ehmry at posteo.net> wrote:

> 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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