Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:13:42 -0700 (MST) From: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081709470.21700-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <863e4g4gqk.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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>I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for >the "National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board", according to >LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like, >nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or >even know what it is? I don't have one, but I know what these are. It's an interface for talking to lab equipment like voltmeters, scanners, all sort of stuff. All this "stuff" of course has to have a GPIB interface as well, but it gets used a lot by those types of people. If I worked in a lab, I'd almost assuredly be using the driver. No idea if it works. >Is there a good reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just >bobbit it? It kills me to watch this go, but the surest way to bring a maintainer out of the woodwork is to kill it. :-) If I still used this stuff, I think this would be a *great* project to call my own. Deep sigh. But it's all in the CVS tree, so if someone pops up, hey the stuff is still there for the resurrection. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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