Re: parallel I/O ports & opend darin pins on MPC8xx

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

But I still don't see how you could avoid having other drivers clobber
your output but.  I think he has to take one of the two options I

By modifying _all_ drivers that will modify the port in question in a
way that is based on previously read data.

suggested.  Adding his own variable can't help in any way I can
imagine.  Could you give an example?

Find out which port pin(s) is/are  configured  as  OD  output.  Check
which  other port pins on this port are in use, and which drivers are
using these port pins. Make all these drivers  use  a  common  buffer
variable. Voila...


Wolfgang Denk

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