[coreboot] Dynamic detection of Parallel Port

[Corey Osgood]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> For the Paraflasher project I would like to setup a function to
> automatically detect the presence of the PC's parallel ports and their base
> addresses. This way it doesn't need to be hard-coded into the program. I
> was thinking of using /proc/ioports to do this but I am not really sure how
> to do this in C. Here is what I am thinking:
>
> 1. First use grep -c paraport /proc/ioports to check if we have multiple
> parallel ports and maybe setup loop for it.
> 2. Then grep paraport /proc/ioports again to get the base address of each
> parallel port detected. This is where I am stuck. I just need to turn the
> first 4 characters (base address) into a variable. Can anyone help???


There must be a way to do this in C. Maybe do some digging around in the
kernel's include files?

-Corey
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