Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:41:23 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus Message-ID: <33F4BEF3.446B9B3D@prism.uvsq.fr> References: <5696.871641825@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <33F43E94.41C67EA6@prism.uvsq.fr>, Nicolas Souchu writes: > >Hi there! > > > >ppbus (Parallel port bus) brings generic functions for peripherial > >detection > >and parallel port sharing. > > Cool! > > >Anyway, tell us which parallel-port-hardware should be first ported. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Well, how about parallel printers and the PLIP/LPIP support ? :-) You're right, we should keep in mind existing good stuff :) - lpt.c has been ported (keeping code untouched, just inserting ppbus request/release func.) and must be tested About parallel printers, Anybody knows which printers are IEEE1284.1 (Transport Independent Printer Interface) compliant. What about this standard, should we implement it? - plip should of course. We want to move it to a standalone file... plip.c? nicolas -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr My ZIP Iomega home page... http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html
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