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<h1>Re: developing plustek driver-- questions</h1>
<b>Antal Novak</b> (<a href="mailto:afn@weevil.net"><i>afn@weevil.net</i></a>)<br>
<i>Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:56:37 -0400 (EDT)</i>
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<i>&gt; On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Antal Novak wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I don't like low-level OS-dependent... I've got FreeBSD and Linux, and I'm</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; sure many others use different OSes; it would be too hard to develop</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; low-level drivers for every OS. It's much simpler to have to manually</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; specify an I/O port (and in the future, it might be auto-detectable)...</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; But surely the low level driver code has to live in kernel space in order</i><br>
<i>&gt; to make use of interrupts and not busy wait on the port? If the driver</i><br>
<i>&gt; runs in user space, even if it is run as root and niced to a high priority</i><br>
<i>&gt; it isn't going to get the snappy response that a kernel module could get?</i><br>
<i>&gt; Especially seeing as the standard parallel port doesn't come with DMA so</i><br>
<i>&gt; the processor has to be involved in every byte transfered? Whilst</i><br>
<i>&gt; effectively hanging the machine whilst a scan is in progress is OK in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; Windoze world, I don't think it sounds terribly nice for the UNIX</i><br>
<i>&gt; environment. Or is there a cunning way of doing an efficient, platform</i><br>
<i>&gt; independent, user space, low level driver that I've missed?</i><br>
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Well... maybe further down the line. At this point, all I'm interested in<br>
is a working SANE driver.<br>
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Do other parallel port drivers require kernel support?<br>
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afn<br>
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