On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Peter Asemann wrote:
> - In SPP mode the hardware will take put the data written to the
> data register onto the data lines and automatically set the strobe
> signal for a predefined time. Depending on configuration, the
> hardware will continue sending even if the peripheral did not
> acknowledge the receiving, or wait for ACK.
PC hardware doesn't do this. It puts the value on the data lines, and
that's it.
> - In ECP mode the hardware handles ECP handshake as well as RLE encoding if
> activated. I suppose the RLE decoding of data sent from the peripheral also
> is done in hardware?
Yes. I've not seen any real hardware that does encoding for you, but
of course it's possible for it to.
> Is it, from the viewpoint of the linux drivers, so that they only
> outb their data to the data/address register and the hardware does
> the rest of the job?
Yes.
> What happens if something goes wrong? Does the hardware
> send an interrupt or is the software accessing the parallel port supposed to
> look into the status register from time to time?
Basically it depends on the hardware. There's usually a 'something
went wrong' bit in the status register, but its meaning can vary
wildly from board to board.
> I've read something about some IEEE1284 library and ppdev and other drivers
> that might be of help?
Yes: libieee1284 might be able to help.
Tim.
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