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Bug#560088: ITP: python-portio -- low level port I/O for Linux



On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 23:42 +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> > I do hope not; this should never be used in production.  But it may yet
> > be useful in hardware development.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> 
> I'm working on a parallel LCD interface with my custom PCB and I
> wanted interactive way to use parallel port. Found this decided to
> package it for myself and anyone else.
> 
> Should my packaging be changed to i386 & amd64 only?

All architectures that support PCI provide some means to access PCI I/O
space.  It appears that glibc supports the in*() and out*() functions on
alpha, amd64, arm, ia64 and i386.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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