Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:26:11 +0100 From: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Anybody using gp driver? Message-ID: <20031128172611.GA39650@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <8992.1070035402@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20031128144312.GA39403@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <8992.1070035402@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:03:22PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >BTW: Are there more people around (except for you and me :-) who would like > >to see decent gpib-support in FreeBSD? > Yes, me. I might have guessed it. Is there anything around FreeBSD you're not working with or on? ;-) > I'm currently running on a hacked up "GPIB from userland" I did myself, > unfortunately it works well enough that I have never gotten around to > push it into the kernel. > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/GPIB.tgz Perhaps I'll be able to have a look at it next week. Which gpib chipsets does it support (apart from NI, which seems to be some kind of standard)? > On the other hand, GPIB is not going to be a major market for us, but > merely a fringe convenience feature I suspect. Hm, FreeBSD is not supposed to do measurements and steering devices? When I was looking for an OS with gpib support apart from Windows some time ago, the only thing I could find was an old driver for Linux 2.0.x and the one for FreeBSD; even NetBSD didn't offer gpib support, though I supposed that it is more targeted to that kind of things. Now we have most of our "high-level" software for gpib written in Java, and it runs on Linux and Windows. For BSD I would just need the driver (and probably a new JNI). cu Gerrit --
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