Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:05:35 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith) Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver Message-ID: <199807220011.OAA20288@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <199807212221.PAA09431@burdell.ece.arizona.edu>
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On 21 Jul 98, at 15:21, John Galbraith wrote: > 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) Great! This is exactly what I've been looking for! :) > 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 will take your code as is. I am trying to meet some deadlines and would appreciate if you could email me what you have. > 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 have been hacking at the current gpib.c driver and had some success getting it upto 600Kbytes/s transfers. But I would definitely like to eval your driver. > 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 Randal Masutani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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