- From: Howells, Andrew <andrew.howells_at_opbu.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:15:22 -0700
An unlucky unlikely intern at xerox just tasked with writing a driver module for a new daqboard/2005. Comedi only offers support for the daqboard/2000. daqboard2000.c: The card seems to have an incredible amount of capabilities, but trying to reverse engineer them from the Windows source is beyond my patience. Well I'm either completely oblivious to how hard this will be or I'm just the man with the time and energy (will write code for food, I like Italian). But I'm armed only with the linux driver module provided by iotech which is: 1) an uncommented unreadable 650k of source, 2) designed only to interface to a user-space lib, 3) which does not work well with the concept of a kernel-space RTAI driver, and with the very limited 4 year old comedi driver for a similar but different card. All the information about the comedi driver says ...card was obviously never intended to leave the windows world since it lacked all kind of hardware documentation (except for cable pinouts, ... With some help from our Swedish distributor, we got the Windows sourcecode for the card... Whoa! How? Where? Google searches reveal nothing. My questions here: 1) How did "Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell_at_control.lth.se>" (from the 1999 source file, can he still be reached?) get the source? 2) Does anyone know about this card? I will probably use RTAI but please comment if you use RTLinux or even if you know nothing about real-time (I am new to this list) but know about the card or how to get info. Thank you very much in advance for any help, Andrew
Received on 2002-07-19Z18:15:22