Date: 22 Jul 1998 10:40:08 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, randal@comtest.com, dufault@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver Message-ID: <87n2a2s2hj.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:53 %2B0200" References: <3229.901088573@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: > In message <199807212317.QAA02618@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > > > >Randal, I think this just might be your lucky day. 8) > > > >> 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). > > Now, I havn't worked with GPIB since my days at Commodore, but just a > few days ago I talked to a lab-programmer, and he was very interested > in a "serious GPIB" interface, in particular if it came with a non-C > interface for script people like him. Do you have anything that would > allow the use of this driver from shell/tcl/perl/whatever for people > like him ? I'll probably have to write a clone for NI's libgpib. I intend to write an interface to Python for that. But that won't be today or tomorrow, it's more likely to be in the course of a few months. SWIG could probably be used to generate interfaces for several scripting languages. tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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