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[lcd4linux] old ancient legacy port access disabled

[Michael R. <mi...@re...>]

Hello all,

today I decided to disable the old direct raw parallel port access in LCD4Linux (using outb() and so on)

If you really need it, you can enable it with configure --with-outb

I don't want to remove the code completely (in about 15 years, I want to show my kids that "bit banging" wasn't obscene :-)

I cannot test it completely, because I don't have any parallel ports available here, and I don't have any non-x86 
machines to test.

But I hope that now debian builds on non-x86 architectures don't fail (I got some error reports for sparc, mipsel, 
powerpc, s390)


Maybe someone can do some testing?


regards, Michael

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Re: [lcd4linux] [Lcd4linux-devel] old ancient legacy port access disabled

[Reinhard T. <sir...@ta...>]

On Mo, Dez 26, 2011 at 07:34:28 (CET), Michael Reinelt wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> today I decided to disable the old direct raw parallel port access in LCD4Linux (using outb() and so on)
>
> If you really need it, you can enable it with configure --with-outb
>
> I don't want to remove the code completely (in about 15 years, I want to show my kids that "bit banging" wasn't obscene :-)
>
> I cannot test it completely, because I don't have any parallel ports available here, and I don't have any non-x86 
> machines to test.
>
> But I hope that now debian builds on non-x86 architectures don't fail (I got some error reports for sparc, mipsel, 
> powerpc, s390)
>
>
> Maybe someone can do some testing?

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=lcd4linux looks really
great now!

Thanks for this commit.

Cheers,
Reinhard
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