I think it's also called not re-inventing the wheel! :) -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timur Tabi Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:44 AM To: kernel newbies Subject: Re: Device Driver: starting with just a card Stephen torri wrote: > Ok. Cheating to me would be to look at the code that someone else has > done to write a parallel port driver. Where would I find documentation > for common parallel port hardware? I have a Intel 440BX chipset, old I > know, on this computer. It's not cheating if you study the code to learn the protocol, and then write a new driver from scratch. Or you could look at the code from another OS. DOS and OS/2 are good choices for this. The parallel port interface is documented in tons of older PC programming books. -- Timur Tabi Staff Software Engineer timur.tabi@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
