Selecting Paralel port support in the kernel (only available as a module) gives parport.o and parport_pc.o. insmodding parport gives the following: insmod parport.o parport.o: unresolved symbol proc_dointvec_minmax_Rsmp_e014086a parport.o: unresolved symbol proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax_Rsmp_cef1719b parport.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sysctl_table_Rsmp_1a33a4a0 parport.o: unresolved symbol register_sysctl_table_Rsmp_0344b914 Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-sparc64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.24-sparc-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.24-sparc-r2 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gtk imlib jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang sparc spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib" emerge info:
Created attachment 30368 [details] kernel config more background info if required. Running on a 2CPU U2.
Is this issue with sparc-sources?
This is the module for parport support compiled from sparc kernel sources. Interestingly, I found that the same module failed when using AMD kernels on an Athlon chip, but works fine on intel compiled kernels on P3's.
Can you try sparc-sources-2.4.26 please and see if you get it with that?
No reply on comment #4 for a long time, closing this bug as TEST-REQUEST.