|-- modes
`-- spintime
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.0cm}|p{13.5cm}|
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``modes`` Parallel port's hardware modes, comma-separated,
meaning:
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- PCSPP PC-style SPP registers are available.
- TRISTATE Port is bidirectional.
- COMPAT Hardware acceleration for printers is
- available and will be used.
- EPP Hardware acceleration for EPP protocol
- is available and will be used.
- ECP Hardware acceleration for ECP protocol
- is available and will be used.
- DMA DMA is available and will be used.
- =============== =======================================
+ - PCSPP
+ PC-style SPP registers are available.
+
+ - TRISTATE
+ Port is bidirectional.
+
+ - COMPAT
+ Hardware acceleration for printers is
+ available and will be used.
+
+ - EPP
+ Hardware acceleration for EPP protocol
+ is available and will be used.
+
+ - ECP
+ Hardware acceleration for ECP protocol
+ is available and will be used.
+
+ - DMA
+ DMA is available and will be used.
Note that the current implementation will only take
advantage of COMPAT and ECP modes if it has an IRQ