Re: [coreboot] ACPI on m57sli v1.0

[Harald Gutmann]

On Thursday 02 July 2009 21:40:52 Peter Stuge wrote:
> Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> > > With the attached patch I get the following output on modprobe parport:
> > > [   28.848297] lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> >
> > Patch tested succesfully with parallel-port printer.
>
> Is the port interrupt-driven, or polling, on your system, Andreas?

Here on my system it says also polling, like on Andreas system.
What is the difference between interrupt driven and polling?

On vendor bios it is interrupt-driven.
Is an ACPI part missing to get it interrupt driven?
> //Peter

Regards,
Harald