On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:05:35PM -0500, David Lambert wrote:
> How can I detect when the peripheral sends the host a command,
> rather than data, without monitoring the status lines directly?
Not easily. :-(
If you are trying an ECP data read, and the peripheral sends a channel
byte, the kernel will stop in the middle of the handshake rather than
accepting the byte.
However, you don't get to know why is stopped short: it could just as
easily be a peripheral timeout.
If you are trying an ECP channel read, it will just read as many bytes
as you ask for without checking if they really are channel bytes.
Suggestions for fixing all this are welcome.
Does anyone actually _use_ peripheral-to-host channel communications
then? I was under the impression that no-one did since the ECP
register spec basically doesn't allow you to ("ecpAFifo [...] The
operation of this register is defined only fror the forward
direction").
Tim.
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