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Notes on libieee1284 on Solaris/x86
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There are some problems with supporting bi-directional parallel ports in
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Solaris/x86. Not least of these is the fact that there is no built-in
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support, nor built-in inb/outb. To work around this problem, I have
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included the IOP kernel-mode driver which exposes the inb and outb
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functions to userspace. To the end users, this means that you will need
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to install the iop driver before you can use libieee1284.
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After performing a make install (which will also install the driver), you
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will probably need to reboot with -r, ie:
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# /usr/sbin/reboot -- -r
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On Solaris 2.8 you will probably need to run add_drv after rebooting, ie:
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# add_drv iop
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If that doesn't get it working, consult the add_drv man page.
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Once the IOP driver is installed and working, you will only be able to access
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the parallel port as root.
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The other downside of this method of parport access is that it is *slow*.
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Each read and write requires an ioctl, which being a syscall is not fast.
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On top of that, you are limited to nibble mode transfers, so each ioctl is
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4 bits.
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I hope that Sun sees fit to port the ECPP system to x86 in a future version
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of Solaris.
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Enjoy,
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- Matthew Duggan
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stauff1@users.sourceforge.net
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