From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 12:57:47 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 082F216A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:57:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8595343F85 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:57:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hASKvegS010969; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:57:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:52:44 +0100." <20031128205244.GA40124@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:57:40 +0100 Message-ID: <10968.1070053060@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 20:57:47 -0000 In message <20031128205244.GA40124@pmp.uni-hannover.de>, Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q? K=FChn?= writes: >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >I might have guessed it. >> >Is there anything around FreeBSD you're not working with or on? ;-) > >> sound cards :-) > >Hey, you can quite easily make oscilloscopes from them... :) Not for the speeds I need :-) >> >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)? > >> The idea was to have the generic NI API and per-chip driver code. I > >So you already implemented the complete NI command set?! Not quite but a lot of it yes. The NI command set seems to be simply wrapper functions of the 7210 chip anyway... >Hm, my PCI card (made by INES) uses afaicr a NEC chip, too (can't remember >the number now). Did you ever try to ask Frank Mori Hess or one of the >other guys who are maintaining the Linux gpib driver about datasheets? >Should be strange if no-one has them... I've never spent much time on it, I found some data sheets on some newer chips which were 7210 compatible and went from there. >> Sure it is, but only if there is sufficient hacker momentum will it >> gain the ability and retain the ability. GPIB has been discussed about >> once per year for the last 5 year and we've gotten nowhere further >> for that... > >Ok, I see. Linux seems to have suffered a similar problem for some time. >Actually it's quite a pity - gpib is really useful stuff to have in a lab. >Well, my hacking skills are rather poor and my time is somewhat limited; >otherwise I would already have put more effort into this. And here we go again :-) As much as I'd personally love to have GPIB in FreeBSD, I just don't see it having enough mindshare and marketshare to happen. I'd love to be proven wrong... -- 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.