From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 06:43:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0148416A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:43:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mrelay2.uni-hannover.de (mrelay2.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414A443FA3 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2])hASEhGug028586; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:43:17 +0100 (MET) Received: by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix, from userid 846) id A702729D; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:43:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:43:12 +0100 From: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20031128144312.GA39403@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20031127.141022.35659157.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031128080134.GA38359@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20031128.014859.11373182.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031128.014859.11373182.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody using gp driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:43:25 -0000 On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:48:59AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Oops, is it /that/ bad? > I can't convince myself that it would have any chance of working. > That's why I asked. Hm, doesn't sound very promising then. :) > : Well, as I said above: I'm not using it so far, but given some time I may be > : able to find out if it's still working. > Please let me know if you succeed. I'll send you a message then. Although I really don't know when I should find time to play around with those things. I have working gpib PCI/PCMCIA cards under Linux and need to get some measurements done before I can think about making things "more challanging" (like changing over to FreeBSD or trying out some of the ancient 8bit cards :-). Anyway, do I need FreeBSD 4.x for the tests or is there any chance that 5.x will work with this driver, too? BTW: Are there more people around (except for you and me :-) who would like to see decent gpib-support in FreeBSD? I can remember that even the free gpib driver for Linux was unmaintained for some years until it became almost unusable (only for kernel 2.0.x then, with 2.4.x already out in the streets). Luckily some people have taken up the development some months ago, so there is a version working for 2.4.x now. Is there any chance to benefit from the Linux driver, or will a FreeBSD driver require to be rewritten from scratch? cu Gerrit --