- From: Frank Mori Hess <fmhess_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:59:24 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 05:12 am, Steve Sharples wrote: > > I sussed out the 8255 option (so no help needed with that anymore), and > I'm still working on the "burst mode" emulation. The Amplicon PCI230 > card doesn't have "native" burst mode->DMA capabilities, however initial > testing using one of the 8254 counter/timers to produce a gate pulse of > exactly the right length to get the correct number of channels (ie the > number of channels in a scan) seems to work well. Once I've tested > thoroughly and tidied up, I'll submit it for a driver update. It shouldn't go in the driver unless the hardware really supports it. In this case, that would mean no steps like 'connect a wire between pin 5 and pin 20' are required. It sounds like adding driver support for gating the convert trigger would be appropriate though - -- Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAdIfM5vihyNWuA4URAsvNAKCd/W2ATyp1g6WJcl6I8VJH3IrrNgCcD780 WZ/RhLzhuaLYsNDDY+eDOIY= =C4V+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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