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

[Jonathan M. <jmc...@gm...>]

Hi Michael,

On 26/12/11 06:34, Michael Reinelt wrote:
> 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)

Great. It would be nice to be able to support all the Debian architectures.

> Maybe someone can do some testing?

I've created an updated Debian package and uploaded it to
mentors.debian.net. [1] This also closes Debian bug #652132.

Like yourself, I don't have access to anything other than x86 or ARM,
but I'll try to test it over the next few days using QEMU or something
of the sort.

If there are no problems, I'll get Reinhard (time-permitting of course)
to upload to the Debian FTP archives.

Seasons greetings,
Jon

[1] http://mentors.debian.net/package/lcd4linux