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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