In article <20050220033738.GI27315@che.ojctech.com>,
David Young  <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:41:29AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
>> G'day,
>> 
>> Reading up on parallel ports, the ppbus(4) refers to the ppi(4) interface.
>> 
>> ? ? ? ? ? ?o ? a user interface named ppi(4) that allows parallel port access
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?from outside the kernel without conflicting with kernel-in
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?drivers.
>> 
>> However, ppi(4) seems to be missing on NetBSD-2.99.15. Is ppi(4)
>supported and 
>> if so, does someone care to write the missing man page?
>
>Berndt,
>
>Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think ppi(4) is an
>experimental facility that comes from FreeBSD.  FreeBSD has a man page,
>I think.  If you test ppi and find it satisfactory, send-pr the man page,
>cc'ing me, and I make sure it is imported.  Also, send-pr if ppi does
>not work right.
>
Someone needs to import ppi.c and ppi.h too. It looks straight forward,
but I don't have hardware to test this.

christos