From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 16:42:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03519 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:42:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magpie.ece.arizona.edu (magpie.ece.arizona.edu [150.135.4.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03508 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@magpie.ece.arizona.edu) Received: (from john@localhost) by magpie.ece.arizona.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04115; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:44:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from john) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:44:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199902090044.RAA04115@magpie.ece.arizona.edu> From: John Galbraith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199902090022.QAA63814@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > Steve Kargl writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...] > > Actually, John Galbraith has written > > a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards. Search > > the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver. It > > is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys. > > Then why haven't we imported it yet? send-pr that baby and drop me a > note, and I'll look into it. > The last version I posted can be found at www.ece.arizona.edu:/~john. I have been using it quite extensively for the last few months on a 2.2.6 machine. Mostly it has been small transfers, so I haven't been using it at heavy load. It appears to be quite stable under those conditions. I have tested it on another 3.0 machine, but I haven't been using it for real work. I made some extensive changes in order to support catching SRQ's using the poll() mechanism. I almost have it, but there was one thing that I couldn't get to work, so I haven't posted it yet. The version on the web page is the one I am actually using, along with a bunch of documentation. John -- John Galbraith email: john@ece.arizona.edu University of Arizona, home phone: (520) 327-6074 Los Alamos National Laboratory work phone: (520) 626-6277 home page: www.ece.arizona.edu:/~john "As had been true historically, Gates' concern was not making great products, but keeping the world locked into using his products." --- Wendy Goldman Rohm, The Microsoft File To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message