Subject: Re: National Instruments GPIB support?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Shelby <snoonan@fcps.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/07/1998 12:53:43
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:21:08 -0700 (PDT) 
>  Shelby <snoonan@fcps.org> wrote:
> 
>  > I have one of these cards also (plus one with the 'other' chip on it.  I
>  > even have some time..   What are you trying to put on the bus?  I could
>  > try to MI the hp300 port's hpib (same as GPIB) bus code and then the cs80
>  > drives should just work..  but there is little support for anything else.  
>  > 
>  > BTW I am new to kernel hacking/drivers also so it may take some time.
> 
> Well, in a perfect world, there'd also be a way of just opening the
> raw gpib bus and then reading/writing to it...
> 
> Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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> 
can we do this to .. say scsibus?  or  should we make a passthru like
FreeBSD's ppt driver for the parallel bus?  I would think that a passthru
would be a better choice..

Shelby