Re: writing a parallel port driver to support external hardware

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:35:34 +0100 (BST)

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> tr> Hmm...Why parallel? Sounds like a pain. Many good microcontrollers have
> tr> serial I/O built into them. I know most of the PIC and 68hc11 do.
>
> Do you know of any cross-compilers for any of these boards that run
> under Linux? Most I've seen only have DOS interfaces and I don't want
> to buy another computer just to program the thing.

There are HC11 and 68000 compilers all over the place including even a
gcc target for 68hc11 (writes lousy code). 6502 ansi C compiler etc..

Look around and at the comp.compilers FAQ

Alan

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