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Re: Porting packages to sparc



On Mon, 2006-03-13 11:18:07 +1000, Alexander Zangerl <az@snafu.priv.at> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:31:55 PST, Jurij Smakov writes:
> > 		the external LCD display. Any sparc which needs it?
> 
> as there is lcdproc which provides similar functionality without
> the silly "all the world's an intel" assumption, i don't see much 
> point in fixing lcd4linux.

IIRC they tried the iopl()/inb()/outb() tricks to access the parport.
Is that already gone and converted to the ppdev API or do they still
do that?

MfG, JBG

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