Re: Hardware SSI support

On 30/07/07 18:40, Arno Stienen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a brand new absolute encoder. Considering all the options, I
> would prefer to use hardware SSI (synchronous serial interface).
> 
> Grepping the Comedi source, the ADDI-DATA APCI-1710 seems to support
> this mode. Does anybody know of any other hardware supported cards or
> have some more general information about SSI support in Comedi? Any NI
> cards with support for this mode?

The ADDI-DATA drivers aren't built at the moment due to improper use of
floating point in the kernel and inclusion of i386-specific header
files, which makes them non-portable.  They really need a bit of a
rewrite to use 64-bit integer arithmetic instead of floating point.

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Received on 2007-08-01Z16:05:37