From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 15 11:36:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11433 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:36:52 -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 LAA11410; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:36:37 -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 UAA24472 ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:36:16 +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 UAA09130 ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:36:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <33F4BEF3.446B9B3D@prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:41:23 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp CC: FreeBSD hackers , FreeBSD hardware Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus References: <5696.871641825@critter.dk.tfs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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