On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:45:45AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > I just ran into a project called Comedi (www.comedi.org) which seems to > support, even in RT kernels (or so they claim), a large number of PCI > data acquisition boards (including the Measurement Computing 4020, which > also has a separate driver in gnuradio, but I and at least one other > person I know have had serious stability issues with the driver in the > gnuradio cvs).
Sorry to hear that. Patches welcome. > It probably would not be that hard to add support to gnuradio to have a > comedilib source which would be able to use all of the hardware that > they have drivers for. By looking at their API, I can't seem to find a > good way to just get a data stream from the card in an efficient manner, > but this was a very cursory look... Anyways, just thought I'd let people > know it's out there. > > Looking over list archives, it seems like this issue has popped up > over the years, though the last reference to it was about 2 years > ago > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2003-04/msg00073.html). > Was the reason it was never done that there wasn't a good way to get a > stream of data out of the comedi drivers or library? > > -Ilia Hi Ilia, Thanks for the reminder about comedi. Last time I took a good look (a few years ago), there was no interface that supported streaming data. It may have changed. If it doesn't support streaming, it's pretty much a non-starter for most GNU Radio applications. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
