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Re: How to write drivers?

From: Jonathan Schleifer (jswebkeks.org)
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 13:00:38 CDT

Sviatoslav Chagaev <slavazb.lv> wrote:

> Yes, I even wrote a program which "talks" with the device directly,
> with the help of inb()/outb().

I doubt you could use inb/outb in OpenBSD. The kernel will prevent that.
Just talk with the device in /dev directly - there is really no need to
write a driver. OpenBSD already has an LPT driver that gives access to
it to the userland, so why reinvent the wheel here?

--
Jonathan

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