From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 15 03:01:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18850 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 03:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soleil.uvsq.fr (soleil.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA18827; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 03:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr [193.51.25.1]) by soleil.uvsq.fr (8.8.6/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id MAA11339 ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:01:40 +0200 (METDST) Received: from coreff (rtc104.reseau.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.20]) by guillotin.prism.uvsq.fr (8.8.4/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id MAA03862 ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:01:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <33F43E94.41C67EA6@prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:33:40 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD hackers CC: FreeBSD hardware Subject: Parallel port developpements - ppbus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there! ppbus (Parallel port bus) brings generic functions for peripherial detection and parallel port sharing. This generic support for the parallel port allows us to port the existing Linux drivers develpped by the Linux-parport Team. see http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html for more info. The code is under the GPL... of course. These drivers are mostly maintained by: Philip Blundell and Grant R. Guenther First, _stable_ drivers may be ported and later others if their spec become available (or if somebody is happy to hack them :) You may want to contribute... The existing ppi (Parallel port interface on ppbus) supports loadable kernel modules. ;) Anyway, tell us which parallel-port-hardware should be first ported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- nicolas -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr My ZIP Iomega home page... http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html