In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > I'm aware of this. Changing register contents seems a useful extension
> > to me, too. That's why I wrote "add such code". I think something like
>
> > Print all (or a predefined set of) registers:
>
> < => reg
>
> > Print a specific register:
> < => reg name
>
> >Set a specific register to "value":
> > => reg name value
>
> > would be generally useful, not only for parallel I/O registers.
>
> Specifying parallel I/O ports has whole registers is really
> uncomfortable: If for example one would like to write a value to a
> parallel I/O port, then he'd need to read the data register first, then
> mask off all irrelevant bits, and then write the shifted value to this
> register. The pario command does this job in a much more comfortable
> way.
Nothing prevents you to write your code such that "name" is not a
register name but a parallel port name, and that the code that
handles it does exactly what you describe above transparently for the
user.
> Again - we can keep this command in our boards' common code, but I think
> it would be a pity, as I think this functionality can be useful for many
> other CPU types as well.
Agreed.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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