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Re: FW drivers..

Subject: Re: FW drivers..
From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:41:40 +0100

> From: Sean <email@hidden>

> Specifically I want to have FW scanner support under OS X PB
and/or Darwin
> I would like to use SANE which supports network scanning as well
as a few
> other tweaks.

[lots of questions about kernel hacking]

Just a small note: you probably don't need to write a kernel driver
to drive scanners, a user-space 'driver' accessing the appropriate
low-level ports should do fine. I used to do a lot of scanner as
well as printer driver development on NeXTStep/OPENSTEP, and the only
time I went for the kernel was in order to interface to an EISA
board with direct digital/video interface to Canon CLCs. Even then,
only the smallest possible piece of code lived in the kernel.

Marcel

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