INFO Driver articles & status

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Curt Wuollet

Hi all

While surfing around, I found a couple of articles on writing Linux drivers for DAQ boards that I thought list members would be interested in. One of them talks about userland drivers and one about kernel drivers. Not much depth, but the kernel driver one will be continued. Also discussed are the limitations of userland drivers vs kernel drivers and a simple snippet to demonstrate toggling a pin on the printer port. Gee, maybe we should have a link list to all
this good stuff ;^)

http://www.tmworld.com/articles/2000/05_linux.htm

http://www.tmworld.com/articles/2000/0415_Linux.htm

As long as my connection is staying up today, a few words about status.

I recieved the Optilogic Ethernet I/O and have so far managed to get dhcp to give it an IP address. I'm hacking around on some code I stole that does UDP sockets, but no cigar yet. Since UDP is usually layered under something else, there isn't a lot of good info available on using it. That's what I've been looking for. The socket
code tends to be cookbook stuff because you always have to do the same stuff to set it up. The hardware looks like a winner. Very reasonable in price. Ping turnarounds weren't very fast, but the protocol lets you string many ops in one message. I'm eager to see this work. If I have to, I'll even set up a windows box and sniff out
what they're doing. Hopefully it won't come to that. Last time I did that I wasted a day and a half and was pissed off for a week.. I still
haven't got back to the Opto22 rack, but when I do I may have to use their proto to get acceptable performance. Since I hate being coerced into using a proprietary proto, I may just scratch them off my list. They are real expensive compared to the Optilogic stuff.

As I mentioned in passing, I have a Computerboards CIO-DIO48 card on order. I have the docs from their site and am working through
a first pass I/O process to support it. I'll post issues for discussion as I run into them. The hardware should be here this week.

Progress may be a little slow, I have to put more time into robot programming for my day job :^)

Regards,

cww


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Jose Fernandez

Curt, very interesting the articles which you have referenced to. BTW Have you noted whithin the
http://www.tmworld.com/articles/2000/0415_Linux.htm, a reference to www.llp.fu-berlin.de ?, i.e "The Linux Lab Project", which is about measurement
and control for education and industrial application, from the "Free University of Berlin" it seems very interesting for our project, I would
surf around there a little bit.

It makes me feel happy that there are a lot of people around the world considering Linux for Control and instruments application.

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Curt Wuollet

Hi Jose

Yes, I have been on their mailing list for years. The CIO-DIO48 driver for the nest step came from their archive. For the test equipment I build
I got a driver from there and comissioned Ricky Beam to update it. It's an excellent resource for Test and Measurement on Linux. They have quite a bit on IEEE488 and CAN also. I have been trying to get time to look at the comedi project which generates drivers for DAQ cards.

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