Subject: Re: ppbus & netbsd
To: Tyrel Beede <tb90@mail.csuchico.edu>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/27/2001 22:56:05
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:44PM -0800, Tyrel Beede wrote:
> Recently I've been looking into getting PLIP support working with the
> more advanced parallel port modes which will allow for bi-directional
> byte size transfers.  However, it seems that NetBSD parallel support is
> still pretty primitive, PLIP isn't even supported on any other arch but
> the pc532.  After looking into things I've come to like FreeBSD's ppubs
> which adds a lot of functionality to the parallel port.  I'm wondering
> if anybody has any objections to ppbus and/or integrating this support
> into NetBSD.

I don't have any objections, in fact, it'd be great if someone
could look into integrating this.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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