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[Peter Pregler]

On 04-Nov-99 Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Peter Pregler wrote:
> 
>> wrong as suggested by Bas; the linux parport driver might not support
>> ECP-mode on your parallel card chip (guess only possible for rather
>> exotic/old PCs); 
> 
> 
> I have an IBM pc 330 /486 sx and a toshiba laptop, where I believe the
> Linux kernel does not support ECP.
> 
> It may be more common then normally assumed?

Maybe ask the guys that wrote the parport-code or directly on the
linux-kernel list. The cpia-driver just uses that code. As for cpia: you
could implement nibble-mode which also works with SPP. Performance will be
worse and DMA won't be possible or hard.

-Peter


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