Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:30:01 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? Message-ID: <19990209223001.A9379@internal> In-Reply-To: <199902090044.RAA04115@magpie.ece.arizona.edu>; from John Galbraith on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:44:33PM -0700 References: <199902090022.QAA63814@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <xzpzp6octh2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199902090044.RAA04115@magpie.ece.arizona.edu>
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On Mon, 08-Feb-1999 at 17:44:33 -0700, John Galbraith wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: > > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...] > > > Actually, John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu> 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. I would greatly appreciate to see this thing go into the tree. I still have to build a measurement system in our lab (you remeber, John :-)) and people there are talking about linux already :-(. Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible, since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible for me to use it on production machines. Thanks a lot, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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