From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 15:55:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA05474 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from acroal.com (firewall0.acroal.com [209.24.61.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA05468 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@acroal.com) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by acroal.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA25845 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@acroal.com) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:55:23 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Proposed code merge, objections? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been told there is no official policy on this, so I want some feedback. I am considering currently a merge of the alog driver (Industrial Computer Source AIO8-P) into -stable. Fortunately it is really not a merge since the driver itself was developed and tested on -stable in the first place and had to be altered for -current. For any of you who don't know what alog is, it is a driver for a Low-Cost ($195) 12 bit analog data-acqusition board with optional externally daisy chained signal conditioners/multiplexers. I am trying to promote this product since I have had very good experience with it. The best thing by far is the capability of attachment of up to 128 channels, at approximately $26/channel (including interface board and multiplexers). Whoa, that means you can actually own one without taking out a second mortgage on you house. I have had this software running on a 48 channel system running -stable for about 3 months, without a problem. In summary, this probably won't effect much of anyone, however I want to make the driver available in RELENG_2_2 since people running data acquisition thingys in a commercial environment like me are running -stable. So next time you go to buy that overpriced Low cost ($700 for 8 channels, no mux w/o external expensive SCXI stuff) National Instruments board, take a look first at Industrial Computer Source. Who I might mention have repaired some digital I/O boards at no cost 3 times in a year that were connected to some faulty equipment that blew them after a few months repeatedly (no more with that crap). I'm not knocking on National Instruments, but their stuff is really Laboratory Quality (which sometimes is not what you want for industrial applications). I plan on (in the future) expanding alog to drive different models of analog boards (anything I can get my hands on). So anyone wanting to permanently donate :) any analog board (in a reasonably unridiculous manner) I will support. I am also considering discussing a general interface to digital I/O boards (as a class), of course only those having some reasonable method of autodetection.