From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 22 06:52:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-dc.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03589 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17645; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:09 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808220650.GAA17645@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What options for BW quickcam on 2.2.7 ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:59:02 +0200." <199808221159.NAA29591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:08 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message