Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:00:59 +0000 (GMT)
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, WODECKI, Victor wrote:
> Looking through the kernel sources, there is some IEEE1284 support, but
> I'm not clear on how complete this is.
Not very. It does reverse nibble mode, and negotiation. If that's enough
for your device, good.
> I've connected the A/D device to the linux machine, parport_probe is
> telling me that it is an unknown device, unknown manufacturer.
> (Which doesn't prove much.)
The device sent a silly device ID string.
> Looking at the "Linux Parallel Port Sharing (parport)" web pages at
> http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html, it seems that the kernel
> version I'm running doesn't do IEEE1284. Is this correct? Does this
> mean that 2.2.12 only does partial IEEE1284, or what?
That's right.
> Should I upgrade to 2.3.x, or perhaps 2.2.13 with appropriate patches?
> Should I proceed with a user-space driver, or a module, or ??
If you _can_ write a user-space driver for your device, you might be best
off doing that. 2.3.x provides ppdev (/dev/parport) support, but the only
documentation so far is in ppdev.c I'm afraid. I've back-ported it to
2.2.x and I hope that it will be integrated in 2.2.15 (or maybe later).
Alternatively, you could write a kernel module for 2.3.x. It won't work
under 2.2.x though.
Tim.
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