It's time to think about upgrading to a new version of comedi. There's lots of new features that many people have wanted/needed, and the 0.6 series has stabilized to the point where I *want* people to use it -- to expose the remaining bugs. Comedi now has a mailing list. Send "sub-scribe comedi" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to sub-scribe. (Remove the hyphen -- it's there to fool rtl's majordomo.) Comedi souce is at ftp://stm.lbl.gov/pub/comedi. The new features that are now implemented are: - device locks: necessary for using comedi from multiple processes (or RTLinux) - comedi now handles requests from RTLinux tasks. Most hardware drivers can handle this. - works with both Linux 2.0 and 2.2 - kernel interface is significantly faster and thus can handle higher throughput - more library functions. Even more soon. - a calibration utility for self-calibrating boards. - all hardware drivers now provide the information necessary to translate (integer) sample values to physical units. - I learned a little bit about binary compatibility. You should be able to compile programs with 0.6.8 and expect them to run with future versions of comedi. - more driver-specific improvements partially implemented features: (soon to be completed?) - RTLinux callbacks: RT functions can be called when specific events occur, such as an analog input interrupt. - value-added devices: separate drivers that aren't actual devices, but perform tasks with existing devices, such as a PID controller, a function generator, or a lock-in amplifier. - mapping of kernel buffers into user space via mmap(). dave... --- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
