On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:56:05PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:44PM -0800, Tyrel Beede wrote:
> > Recently I've been looking into getting PLIP support working with the
> > more advanced parallel port modes which will allow for bi-directional
> > byte size transfers.  However, it seems that NetBSD parallel support is
> > still pretty primitive, PLIP isn't even supported on any other arch but
> > the pc532.  After looking into things I've come to like FreeBSD's ppubs
> > which adds a lot of functionality to the parallel port.  I'm wondering
> > if anybody has any objections to ppbus and/or integrating this support
> > into NetBSD.
> 
> I don't have any objections, in fact, it'd be great if someone
> could look into integrating this.

It would be nice if the code was easily structurable in a way that non-
PC-lpt- parallel ports can be attached and get at least some of the 
functionality (really alien ones, not the ports at some other address).

But I guess we'll better look at it when it is here.

Regards,
	-is