[coreboot] Dynamic detection of Parallel Port

[Stefan Reinauer]

Joseph Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> For the Paraflasher project I would like to setup a function to
> automatically detect the presence of the PC's parallel ports and their base
> addresses. This way it doesn't need to be hard-coded into the program. I
> was thinking of using /proc/ioports to do this but I am not really sure how
> to do this in C. Here is what I am thinking:
>
> 1. First use grep -c paraport /proc/ioports to check if we have multiple
> parallel ports and maybe setup loop for it.
> 2. Then grep paraport /proc/ioports again to get the base address of each
> parallel port detected. This is where I am stuck. I just need to turn the
> first 4 characters (base address) into a variable. Can anyone help???
>   

Check out http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/html/parportguide.html

It has some information on how to use /dev/partportX for your purposes.

Stefan


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