From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 13:30:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10272 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10250 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22627 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:30:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00446 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:30:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21967 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:30:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:30:01 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: John Galbraith Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? Message-ID: <19990209223001.A9379@internal> References: <199902090022.QAA63814@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <199902090044.RAA04115@magpie.ece.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902090044.RAA04115@magpie.ece.arizona.edu>; from John Galbraith on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:44:33PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 08-Feb-1999 at 17:44:33 -0700, John Galbraith wrote: > 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. 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