[rhelv6-list] Parallel Port Support

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/17/2011 06:47 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen<smooge at gmail.com>  said:
>> a) RHEL-6 has many requirements requiring newer computers
>> b) Those newer computers do not have parallel ports
> Yeah, but... parallel port hardware drivers are still included (which is
> nice for me because I use the parallel port to get GPS-based pulse per
> second signals for high-accuracy clocks).  It is only lp (the line
> printer device) that was dropped.
>
> Now, it may be that somebody removed lp and forgot to remove parport_pc
> and friends, and they'll remove parport_pc/etc. once they realize this,
> (which would be highly aggravating to me), or maybe dropping lp is
> somehow an oversight (that would reflect poorly on RHEL QA, since
> comparing module lists from one release to another should IMHO be a
> basic step).
>
> Either way, I can't think of many uses (other than what I'm doing) for a
> parallel port that don't involve a printer (and thus lp).
>
one use is hardware development boards. for instance the ones for which 
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/nucleus/ is dedicated. for the 
same board I packaged, more than 2 years ago,  skyeye ( 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481040 was filed )