Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: PLIP driver in 2.2.xx kernels | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:03:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> > It has to bang on the parallel port controller the hard way, there is no > > useful hardware support on a basic parallel port for the kind of abuse needed > > for PLIP > > > (sorry for the late reply) > I used plip with kernel 1.2.8 and had no problem with it...The machines > that I'm using now are far superior than the old ones... Why shouldn't it > work now ?
The performance hasnt changed. Your fast CPU simply spends longer in a tight loop between each thing it has to do. There are no interrupts we can use for the nibble by nibble data sending
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |