ppi(4) [netbsd man page]

PPI(4)                                                     BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                     PPI(4)

NAME

     ppi -- user-space interface to ppbus parallel 'geek' port

SYNOPSIS

     device ppi

     Minor numbering: unit numbers correspond directly to ppbus numbers.

     #include <dev/ppbus/ppi.h>
     #include <dev/ppbus/ppbconf.h>

DESCRIPTION

     The ppi driver provides a convenient means for user applications to manipulate the state of the parallel port, enabling easy low-speed I/O
     operations without the security problems inherent with the use of the /dev/io interface.

PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

     All I/O on the ppi interface is performed using ioctl() calls.  Each command takes a single u_int8_t argument, transferring one byte of data.
     The following commands are available:

     PPIGDATA, PPISDATA
             Get and set the contents of the data register.

     PPIGSTATUS, PPISSTATUS
             Get and set the contents of the status register.

     PPIGCTRL, PPISCTRL
             Get and set the contents of the control register.  The following defines correspond to bits in this register.  Setting a bit in the
             control register drives the corresponding output low.
             STROBE
             AUTOFEED
             nINIT
             SELECTIN
             PCD

     PPIGEPP, PPISEPP
             Get and set the contents of the EPP control register.

     PPIGECR, PPISECR
             Get and set the contents of the ECP control register.

     PPIGFIFO, PPISFIFO
             Read and write the ECP FIFO (8-bit operations only).

EXAMPLES

     To present the value 0x5a to the data port, drive STROBE low and then high again, the following code fragment can be used:

             int             fd;
             u_int8_t        val;

             val = 0x5a;
             ioctl(fd, PPISDATA, &val);
             ioctl(fd, PPIGCTRL, &val);
             val |= STROBE;
             ioctl(fd, PPISCTRL, &val);
             val &= ~STROBE;
             ioctl(fd, PPISCTRL, &val);

BUGS

     The inverse sense of signals is confusing.

     The ioctl() interface is slow, and there is no way (yet) to chain multiple operations together.

     The headers required for user applications are not installed as part of the standard system.

BSD                                                               January 2, 1998                                                              BSD