Re: What happened to the Advantech PCI-1784 driver?

On 28/07/2007 22:03, Travis Brown wrote:
> According to Advantech their PCI-1784 board is supported by comedi, 
> however it does not appear to be in the supported hardware list. Also I 
> found documentation from Advantech with a list of comedi supported 
> hardware from comedi version 0.7.60, it has a lot of devices that are 
> not on the current supported hardware list. I'm wondering if anyone 
> knows anything about this?

They have their own version of comedi-0.7.60 containing drivers for 
Advantech cards and very little else.  Of course it hasn't been 
maintained so is horribly out-of-date now.

The drivers include the following comment header:

//*****************************************************************************
//				
//		Copyright (c) 2001 IAG Software Team,
//
//			Beijing R&D Center
//	
//			Advantech Co., Ltd.
//
//		    Linux comedi device driver
//
//      This is An Unpublished Work Containing Confidential  And Proprietary
//         Information Which Is The Property Of Advantech  Automation Corp.
//
//    Any Disclosure, Use, Or Reproduction, Without Written 
Authorization From
//               Advantech Automation Corp., Is Strictly Prohibit.
//
//
//*****************************************************************************


But then again, they also include GPL'd comedi code in the package along 
with the standard 'COPYING' file.  I'll leave that for the lawyers to 
figure out.

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Received on 2007-07-30Z15:18:44