Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:18:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help programming I/O, a driver? Message-ID: <19981130111820.F831@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981130102318.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>; from Josh on Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 10:02:49AM %2B1100 References: <XFMail.981130102318.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>
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On Monday, 30 November 1998 at 10:02:49 +1100, Josh wrote: > Hi all. > I have looked high and low (probably in the wrong place :-) > but I can not find anything to help me. I want to figure out > how to control I/O. I can start with the parallel port but > the I want to be able to do the same thing with a custom > card etc. I am refering to bit control of the port. I have > a ADC-DAC card for the parallel port that I have written for > under DOS but I would love to get it running under FreeBSD. > > I understand that this is a bit more difficult under *nix > but it is possible. I am actually thinking I will have to > write it as a driver That's really the only way. That's what drivers are for. > but I really have no idea how to do that or indeed if that is the > right thing to do. Start with the driver writer's tutorial in the online handbook. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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