ppbus (bi-directional parallel port) for i386?

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

Hello,

On my NetBSD 5.1.2/i386 system, there are man pages for ppbus. But from
grep'ing the sources, it seems the support is only included (optionally)
for acorn32. There is a conditional in 
sys/arch/i386/pnpbios/files.pnpbios for "!ppbus" and that's all.

Is there no support except in acorn32?

(FWIW, the reason is to try to get status information from the printer
via HP PJL for a parallel port printer, and this needs bi-directional 
parallel port support.)

TIA.
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