From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 21:41:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBEC16A41B for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:41:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx28.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17FA13C447 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE30FC90E; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:41:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B22C901; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:41:43 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wptd92.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50A0B6A6; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:41:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.my.domain ([91.10.131.39]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 7.0.3HF96) with ESMTP id 2008010922414057-884 ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:41:40 +0100 Received: by localhost.my.domain (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:42:25 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:42:24 +0100 From: Alexey Shuvaev To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Message-ID: <20080109214224.GA1966@localhost.my.domain> Mail-Followup-To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20080109180058.GA99092@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <85016.1199902605@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <85016.1199902605@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 7.0.3HF96 | December 5, 2007) at 01/09/2008 22:41:40, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 7.0.3HF96 | December 5, 2007) at 01/09/2008 22:41:42, Serialize complete at 01/09/2008 22:41:42 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=answer Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IEEE488 (lack of) future in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:41:48 -0000 Hello! Well, it seems that I am that lost soul who has NI PCIIA isa card in the experimental setup a few meters away from the office computer. The computer on the experiment is Dell pentium (i585) with 64 Mib RAM and 2 Gb HDD. It was shipped something around 1994, but still alive! And I have 2 options: either Win9x or FreeBSD. With the second preferred. The dream about "FreeBSD for a scientist" was so sweet... A friend of mine, makc at issp dot ac dot ru is an active maintainer of some number of scientific ports like qtiplot, one of replacements for Origin. Bearing in mind existence of other ports (SciLab, Octavia, gsl, gnuplot, gtkdatabox[2], ...) and development-friendly nature it makes FreeBSD a good choice for a scientist. Well in comparison with my friend I cannot really vote (by contibuting some code) for now, so... If I understand things correctly, the libgpib + pcii driver stays in the CVS repository forever? At least with RELENG_7_0 tag? If so then this mail is not an objection to remove these bits at all, only FWIW. AFAIK the GPIB is a real bus (with its own addressing, signalling and so on) with possibility to attach many devices to it. So if the adapters from Prologix appear to the system as serial ports, are they a stripped down imlementation of GPIB? One external experimental device = one adapter? And the Makefile to compile pcii device driver should look like this, or I miss something? ---Makefile--- .PATH: /usr/src/sys/dev/ieee488 KMOD= pcii SRCS= pcii.c upd7210.c tnt4882.c SRCS+= bus_if.h device_if.h isa_if.h pci_if.h upd7210.h .include ---End-of-Makefile--- Thanks! Alexey.