Subject: Re: Miscellaneous OS features
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/04/2003 11:46:53
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:45:13AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> Decent support for parallel-port devices would be really nice to have,
> and it clearly needs to be done in an MI way so that the rest of us
> just have to write host-adaptor drivers and can have the rest Just
> Work.
there are a whole plethora of parallel-port-based interfaces used in the
embedded world (BDM/SPI, JTAG, etc) for which a generic parallel port
interface layer would be a godsend.
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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
"Isn't an OS that openly and proudly admits to come directly from Holy
UNIX better than a cheap UNIX copycat that needs to be sued in court
to determine what the hell it really is?" -- Michael Sokolov