Re: ECP port driver

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

One other idea.  Now that the Mark IV uses standard
interfaces (or soon will be modified to use them) we
could write a Mark IV simulator that runs on a PC.
The simulator would "look" to a control computer just
like a real Mark IV except you could see inside via a
display or log file.  Also having a simulator would allow
people with no TASS hardware to help develop control
software.  Oh well, as you say there is already more
work to be done then people to do it....

Chris Albertson wrote:
> 
> Thoughts?  Put your code someplace where others can get
> it and update it often.  I'll take a look at it.  Maybe
> others will too.  How does your driver work?   Does it
> user the kernel's "parport" system?
> 
> Robert Creager wrote:
> >
> > Hey Chris,
> >
> > I also am working on a loadable device driver,
> > developing with the 2.4 kernel.  I have a decent
> > skeleton, and am starting on the meat of the code.  I
> > hope to have a simple reader this week, and then move
> > on to using DMA.  Rather than duplicate efforts...  I
> > have no particular preference (as to writing this or
> > not), as I've other TASS code to write.  Thoughts?
> >

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