From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 15 18:38:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00773 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00768; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA29530; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:08:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708160138.LAA29530@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus In-Reply-To: <5696.871641825@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 15, 97 12:43:45 pm" To: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:08:19 +0930 (CST) Cc: Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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 stands accused of saying: > > >Anyway, tell us which parallel-port-hardware should be first ported. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Well, how about parallel printers and the PLIP/LPIP support ? :-) Printers are already (sort of) supported with the 'nlpt' driver. If you could work out why interrupts don't work, that'd be great of course. As for PLIP, well, Jordan sez you're Mr PLIP, so I think this one is best done with your help... > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[