Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded

From: Woody Suwalski
Date: Mon Jul 12 2010 - 09:36:22 EST


Lee Jones wrote:
Please find attached a patch which rectifies the following bug.

When CUPS loads, it tries to load several drivers that it may need.
When one of these drivers, specifically parport_pc is loaded on ARM
based systems, it causes a segmentation fault as the address is not
writable on non-PC based architectures. This code prevents this
driver from being compiled on said architectures.

Kind regards,
Lee
Not exactly true. Netwinders based on Armc4l SA110 have implemeted Parallel port hardware.
It can be used for PP-CDroms and (of course) printing.

I do not claim that the platform is of a great importance anymore, but blanket statements to remove RTC or PPort or KBD from ARM are not correct...

Woody

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