From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 18:51:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA23464 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA23450 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA28473 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:50:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA00996; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:44:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970418034443.PL06012@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:44:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? References: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Apr 17, 1997 17:37:09 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html > > It's apparently very slow, but functional. The biggest problem with this driver is that the architecture of the parallel port driver is now totally clumsy. It has already been problematical to add the PLIP functionality, but now with the ZIP driver, all bets are off. That's not to say i'm objecting against this driver... Lacking a better architecture of the parallel port subsystem, we might accept it, but only if there's also an active maintainer (probably the author himself). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)