Re: Question about digital i/o cmd buffer data format in new driver

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:11 +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 27/01/2005 18:46, Jan Gukelberger wrote:
> > Hi  Ian,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:15 +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >>I'm working on a new driver that supports streaming aquisition on a 
> >>digital I/O subdevice with 24 channels (physically, its a 8255, but I'm 
> >>not using the generic 8255 driver for various reasons).
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > may I ask what a product this is? 
>
> It's an Amplicon PCI272.  It has three 8255 chips (72 I/O lines).  Six 
> of the lines (C0 and C3 on each 8255) can be used be used as (rising 
> edge) triggers to generate interrupts.  So the driver for this card will 
> support TRIG_EXT, but not TRIG_TIMER.

Ah, ok. Not too comfortable if I need an external timer, but doable.

Thanks,
Jan

Received on 2005-01-30Z22:02:52