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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

Greg> Why do all the rio tools insist on doing raw port inb/outb's?

Greg> We have this nice parport layer for sharing parallel ports
Greg> between devices, and the rio of all things is extremely likely
Greg> to be connected in parallel with other devices like plip or
Greg> lp. This would also solve the problem of the user-space process
Greg> being preempted and not being ready when needed to service the
Greg> port.

Most likely due to lack of knowledge about parport from the author's
side ... well thats my guess at least. Doing it for other reasons is
broken.

Jes

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