Re: [PARPORT] new ppdev operations

From: Uwe Bonnes (bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 12:40:47 EDT

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    >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> writes:

        Tim> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:46:43PM +0200, Ronnie Arosa wrote:
    >> I'm working with an Oxsemi's chipset. I've got a development board
    >> and I would like to test the chip it incorporates.

        Tim> Well, ppdev isn't really for this sort of thing: it's for writing
        Tim> device drivers for peripherals really.

    Tim,

    isn't ppdev also good for any emulation (wine,dosemu), where the emulated
    program does direct port access e.g. with inb() and outb(). The emulated
    programm might also want to access the fifo addresses...

    Bye 

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