Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:21:54 -0700 From: john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: new GPIB driver Message-ID: <199807212221.PAA09431@burdell.ece.arizona.edu>
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I have a new GPIB driver that supports National products AT/GPIB and GPIB/TNT. I believe it to be significantly better than the one currently included in FreeBSD-2.2.6 (in /sys/i386/isa/gpib.c). It should be a whole lot faster by the use of interrupts and different polling techniques (which is why I started this in the first place). My driver is a complete rewrite, with some insight gathered from both the current FreeBSD driver and the Linux driver. The Linux driver was particularly helpful, because National apparently likes to withhold certain details about their products... (lame) I would like to contribute my code, but would like some advice on how to best package it. It would be nice to have some other folks try it out first, too. I still have to package it, though. I have been debugging the driver as an lkm, but most drivers that you aren't actually working on are easier if you just config them in. It would seem best to make it work either way. Second, it exists in multiple source files right now. Is it best to consolodate all the source into one huge file, or leave it as several? Finally, how would I go about showing that this code is reliable and is worthy of replacing the current gpib.c? I haven't contributed anything before. It would be useful to me if somebody more experienced with device drivers than myself would be willing to look over what I have and make sure that I didn't do anything particularly stupid. I do not take this list (should I?) so if you could make sure I am explicitly included in any replies, that would be much appreciated. Thanks! John Galbraith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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