Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU

Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by fithisux on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:42AM (#23349864)

It would be better if companies released documentation. Governments should have done their job. Doing. the "emulator" thing is a short term solution. Continuing the emulator thing is like agreeing that governments can get away by not doing their job.

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by Wowfunhappy on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:51AM (#23350569)

Even if the documentation was public, there's no guarantee anyone would take the time to get drivers working on ARM in modern Linux.

I actually think emulation is a good long-term solution for legacy applications. My NES rom of Super Mario Brothers is probably the most cross-platform and future-proof piece of software on my computer, because every platform has an NES emulator! You write (or port) an emulator once per platform, and suddenly the whole NES library opens up.

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by swiley on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:17PM (#23355668)

Wasn’t this the idea behind java?

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by Wowfunhappy on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:07PM (#23358128)

Java runs in a VM rather than an emulator, but, basically yes!

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by boudin on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:50AM (#23349941)

Or having to opensource drivers and firmwares for the hardware they decide to stop maintaining. This is such a waste of hardware, especially for things that don't age much like printers.

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