[Gllug] Writing drivers

[Vincent AE Scott]

Jonathan Dye(jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com)@Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:48PM +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> A friend has asked me to look at writing a driver for a custom piece of
> hardware that he has built (MPEG-1 encoder board via parallel port).  I've
> had a look around the kernel and I own a copy of "Understanding the Linux
> kernel" which I've read and understood.  I know how his hardware works but
> not much about the parallel port drivers/software architecture under linux.
> Anyone got any tips on where to start with this stuff.

i'm just curious, are you saying it operates over the parallel port?
doesnt that have sever bandwidth restrictions for communicating with an
mpeg encoder board?

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