| Date | Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:12:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, David Flood wrote:
> > o Centralized parallel port interface for plip, lp, zip, etc, much like > > what 8390.c does now. Reduces code duplication. > > In addition, having a way of multiple things trying to use the hardware at > once or being able to read that the port is in use by some other thing. > This would fix some of the need to run modules (Although I love them) to > use both lp.c and plip.c
There's not much shareable code in there. The actual routines to talk to the port are trivial, just a couple of outb() calls. The 8390 code can do a lot more.
People are working on a way to coordinate access to ports like that.
P.
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