Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:56:49 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IEEE488 (lack of) future in FreeBSD Message-ID: <87022.1199919409@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:42:24 %2B0100." <20080109214224.GA1966@localhost.my.domain>
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In message <20080109214224.GA1966@localhost.my.domain>, Alexey Shuvaev writes: >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. Whee! I have a user! :-) >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. Yes, if there is no significant userbase, it will stay in RELENG_7, but will not be in RELENG_8. My worry is that since I don't use the GPIB cards anymore, the code will be (already is) pretty unmaintained, and thus likely to rot away. If it transpires people are actually using it, things are different, but it needs to be users, not just people who thought about playing with 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? It can do a full bus, you select the different devices using "magic" commands. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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