Jukka Marin wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to freely control the pc parallel port pins under NetBSD
> in a special application?  I want to use some pins for inputs, some for
> outputs.  Is it necessary to write a custom device driver for this?

  No, you can muck around with the parallel port's device
registers in ordinary (setuid) programs/processes.  Look at the
man page for i386_get_ioperm.  Other people on this list have
experience with this and the parallel port -- hopefully they'll
chime in also!

  Brian
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