[Linux-parport] using ppdev instead of direct hardware access

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:06:50PM +0000, stef wrote:

>      I am far from understanding how to set to ECP FIFO or plain
> ECP with the available ppdev ioctls. The ones I think I need are
> marked obsoleted, and have no kernel code.
> 
>       Also, I have still to figure from/to which addr read/write go.

The ppdev driver is higher-level than that.  If you tell it to use ECP
transfers, and use write(), then (if the kernel is so configured) it
will do the FIFO stuff for you -- it might even use DMA.

Tim.
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