Re: custom parallel interface driver

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:24, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Here are some specifications of the hardware module to support (not
> developed by me):
> - single unidirectional Centronics-like with control signals interface
> - 1K x 8bit FIFO for data
> 
> Minimal driver requirements are:
> - capability to read data from the FIFO (possiblbly through ususal
> device file interfaces and using interrupts)
> - capability to read/write control registers of the interface

If the parallel interface is directly exposed as a PCI device
and it supports the typical 8255 programming model, it should
just work if you add the appropriate vendor and device IDs to
parport_pc_pci_tbl[].

The serial driver has a default case that claims any device that
PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_SERIAL class code.  In theory, the parport
driver could claim anything with PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_PARALLEL.
In that case, you wouldn't even need to modify anything.  But
maybe there are issues that prevent parport_pc.c from doing this.

The following sites have lots of information that might be useful
to you:
    http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
    http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm