I do not understand the motivation to deprecate support for a device that is useful and used in the field, and like Karl said, is cheap and can be cobbled together and works on a lot of (older) machines out of the box. Is there some code reorg of openOCD that is impeded by the parallel port support ? Is there some other driver that requires big changes that are stopped by the parallel port support ?
If the motivation to drop support is just "because it's old" then please don't drop support. It's not dead code as long as people are using it, and even if there were no users (which not true, there are), if it works, why kill it ? Bruno On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 8:12 AM Marc Schink <d...@zapb.de> wrote: > > To be host I'm suprised that there are still parallel port users > > out > > there. Although the main reason is probably more nostalgia than > > anything else ;) > > > > No, nostalgia, it is simple and useful. > > And it is also useful for LinuxCNC. > > I'm only talking about OpenOCD here ;) Can you give me some information > about your setup? What kind of target do you use and what type of > parallel port? USB adapter, on-board, etc. > > > Sorry, no MS-Windows here, but I found this, hopefully it is helpful: > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/parports/operating-a-parallel-port > > > > I'm not going to read Windows docs about how to develop paralllel port > drivers... in my opinion we should drop support for both ;D Okay, maybe > some Windows user will show up. > > Best regards, > Marc > > On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 04:42 +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Marc Schink: > > > To be host I'm suprised that there are still parallel port users > > > out > > > there. Although the main reason is probably more nostalgia than > > > anything else ;) > > > > No, nostalgia, it is simple and useful. > > And it is also useful for LinuxCNC. > > > > > Anyway, my main problem with the parallel port is Windows. I'm not > > > able > > > to build a regression test setup for Windows. There is no > > > documentation > > > on how to set up OpenOCD with a parallel port driver on Windows. Do > > > any > > > of you use the parport driver on Windows? If not and no one shows > > > up > > > with a proper documentation / how-to, I would suggest to deprecate > > > the > > > driver for Windows (and drop it later). > > > > Sorry, no MS-Windows here, but I found this, hopefully it is helpful: > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/parports/operating-a-parallel-port > > > > Regards, > > /Karl Hammar > > > > > > > > >
