Re: [PARPORT] new ppdev operations

From: Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 12:57:51 EDT

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    >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...

    No; ppdev isn't supposed to be some stealth version of /dev/port. If dosemu
    and Wine want to provide enhanced port services, they will need to trap the
    I/O accesses and emulate the requested operation at a higher level. I don't
    imagine there will be all that much call for this, though - DOS programs
    probably won't care about ECP all that much, and Windows ones should be going
    via some kind of device driver anyway.

    p.



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