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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:08 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What options for BW quickcam on 2.2.7 ? 
Message-ID:  <199808220650.GAA17645@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:59:02 %2B0200." <199808221159.NAA29591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> > Taking an existing application and modifying it to use ppi(4) would be 
> > trivial.  The fact that nobody has done this would seem to indicate 
> > that the level of interest is remarkably low.
> 
> No surprise -- there is no 2.2.x port of the ppbus stuff (although
> it seems a trivial thing... it seems to compile fine here although
> i have no hardware to test it), not to mention any white paper or
> sample application -- at least i am not aware of any.

For 2.2, use /dev/io and raw port operations.  Ppbus can be trivially 
backported to 2.2.x, but won't be committed (too radical a change).

> (and speaking of interest -- for the quickcam probably it is not worth
> the effort, but for scanners etc it would be a very nice thing to do
> given that a lot of scanners on the market now seem to use the parallel
> port).

Yes, and this is what ppi lives for.
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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