poll or select for ppi?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:35, Matt Kory wrote:
> Is it possible to use poll or select to detect a change in the status
> bits of the parallel port?  I tried something like this, and took bits
> 5 and 6 of the status register low and nothing seemed to happen.  Is
> what I am trying to do even possible, or I am supposed to take a
> certain bit low to cause a read event?  Any help is appreciated.

PPI doesn't support select/poll.

I don't think ere is any support for interrupt based notifications.. The only 
thing interrupts appear to be used for is for IEE1284 state changes.

ie you're stuck with polling :(

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