> My question is more about the driver itself, it did not change a lot > since 1994 , while netbsd apparently move to a complete different > driver : > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ppbus/?only_with_tag=HEAD > > Are those driving the same chipset family ? > any info on that ?
ppbus in NetBSD is a port of FreeBSD's ppbus which allows access to non-printer devices connected to parallel ports, such as zip drives. It has no relation with PCI-PCI bridges.