On 6/19/24 15:07, Marc Schink wrote:
thanks for your feedback! The patch is only a proposal for now and not a decision. Is there a special reason why you*need* parallel port adapters? I mean there are FTDI-based JTAG (and SWD) adapters for $10. Most parallel port cards I found are more expensive 😉
They're dumb, fast, and work, and they can be cobbled together from parts commonly laying around. The latter alone is a useful property, though the relative unavailability of "real" parallel ports makes it less and less useful these days.
I would imagine many embedded developers have a PCI or PCIe serial+parallel card laying around. You never know when it might be useful. I personally have like 3.
If there's a compelling reason to remove all the parallel adapters like drastically simplifying the codebase, it's one thing, but if we're already sharing a bunch of bit-bang code (which I think we are), then I'm not sure how much it buys.
-- Brandon Martin
