From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 09:26:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F57F16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mrelay2.uni-hannover.de (mrelay2.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4922C43F75 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2])hASHQGug008630; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:26:17 +0100 (MET) Received: by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix, from userid 846) id 9B46C299; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:26:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:26:11 +0100 From: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20031128172611.GA39650@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20031128144312.GA39403@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <8992.1070035402@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8992.1070035402@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 cc: current@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Anybody using gp driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:26:24 -0000 On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:03:22PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >BTW: Are there more people around (except for you and me :-) who would like > >to see decent gpib-support in FreeBSD? > Yes, me. I might have guessed it. Is there anything around FreeBSD you're not working with or on? ;-) > I'm currently running on a hacked up "GPIB from userland" I did myself, > unfortunately it works well enough that I have never gotten around to > push it into the kernel. > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/GPIB.tgz Perhaps I'll be able to have a look at it next week. Which gpib chipsets does it support (apart from NI, which seems to be some kind of standard)? > On the other hand, GPIB is not going to be a major market for us, but > merely a fringe convenience feature I suspect. Hm, FreeBSD is not supposed to do measurements and steering devices? When I was looking for an OS with gpib support apart from Windows some time ago, the only thing I could find was an old driver for Linux 2.0.x and the one for FreeBSD; even NetBSD didn't offer gpib support, though I supposed that it is more targeted to that kind of things. Now we have most of our "high-level" software for gpib written in Java, and it runs on Linux and Windows. For BSD I would just need the driver (and probably a new JNI). cu Gerrit --