Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
> > Meaning no offense, but I can't think of a single good reason to write a > > device driver for one of these cards. (Unless you're trying to do > > pattern generation, and an 8255 is a terrible choice for that.) Worse > > than that though, there's _no_ standard for these cards' implementat

Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread David E. Cross
> Meaning no offense, but I can't think of a single good reason to write a > device driver for one of these cards. (Unless you're trying to do > pattern generation, and an 8255 is a terrible choice for that.) Worse > than that though, there's _no_ standard for these cards' implementation, >

Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Smith
Meaning no offense, but I can't think of a single good reason to write a device driver for one of these cards. (Unless you're trying to do pattern generation, and an 8255 is a terrible choice for that.) Worse than that though, there's _no_ standard for these cards' implementation, so a driv

Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread David E. Cross
I am just about finished with a device driver for PCI DIO boards based around the 8C255 (number may be wrong ;). Specifically this is for the ComputerBoards DIO-24H DIO board. I have been using the 'development' major #, and I am ready to go about getting it committed into the CVS tree for whoev