Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport)

[Gunther Mayer]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
 Like I mentioned in a
> previous message, the Via parport code is ugly and should go into a Via
> superio driver.  It is simply not scalable to consider the alternative
> -- add superio code to parport_pc.c for each ISA bridge out there.  I
> think the same principle applies to this discussion as well.  

Yes, superio will go away and replaced by user level utility:
http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/lssuperio-0.61.tar.bz2

PNPBIOS and ACPI will help to configure parallel ports (and others),
after some issues have been resolved.

Again this will be builtin to parport (and not parport_acpi.o etc)
to make it failproof.