Re: Advantech PCI-1751 card driver

David Schleef wrote:
> > I saw some correspondence regarding the PCI-1751 card from last summer
> > (Adolf Ahmad MS and Michal Dobes). The conclusion was that provided that
> > there are NO IRQs and the internal timer is NOT used, the universal 8255
> > driver could be employed. I was wondering: did the situation change in the
> > past year, i.e., does anyone have a complete driver for this card? I'd
> > also need support for receving IRQ (system: real-time linux v3.1 possibly
> > with 2.4.18 kernel or maybe 2.4.4 kernel).
> 
> It appears that there is some command support available in
> the adv_pci1710.c driver.  However, it doesn't list the 1751
> as a supported device -- I don't know if this is actually a
> problem, or if the documentation (and PCI ID list) need to be
> updated.

PCI-1751 is DIO boards which have two 8255 chips and one 8254 chip.
PCI-171x are A/D boards, so there is "a small" difference. :-)

Simple DIO operations can work with general 8255 driver,
but without extras of the interrupts and timing.

	Majkl

Received on 2002-08-27Z05:50:39