Ira W. Snyder wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:31:06PM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Ira W. Snyder wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:42:44AM +0600, Pavel B. Cheblakov wrote: >>>> From: Pavel Cheblakov <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> This driver is for CAN interface cards based on the PLX90xx PCI bridge. >>>> Driver supports now: >>>> - Adlink PCI-7841/cPCI-7841 card (http://www.adlinktech.com/) >>>> - Adlink PCI-7841/cPCI-7841 SE card >>>> - Marathon CAN-bus-PCI card (http://www.marathon.ru/) >>>> - TEWS TECHNOLOGIES TPMC810 card (http://www.tews.com/) >>>> >>>> Changes since v1: >>>> - Added some defines for static inline int plx_pci_check_sja1000(...) >>>> - static struct pci_device_id plx_pci_tbl[] replaced by >>>> static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(plx_pci_tbl) >>>> - Typo fixed >>>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Any ideas if this driver could support the Janz PCI CAN cards as well? I >>> don't have any documentation for the cards, and I'd love to get away >>> from their closed-source drivers. >> Is it a passive or and intelligent CAN PCI card? What is the name of the >> card? A intelligent card will run its own firmware and you do not have >> direct access to the SJA1000. Pavel plx_pci driver is quite generic and >> it should not be a big deal to support a PLX90xx based passive card. >> > > It is an intelligent CAN PCI card. I'm pretty sure they're the card > described here: http://www.janz.de/as/en/can-cp6/k2.html > > Since this driver is for passive cards, it clearly won't work. Are there > any examples of drivers written for intelligent CAN cards? Until I found > the website above, I'd never seen any data sheets for this card. They > look like they may have enough information to write a driver to > interface with the new Linux CAN layer.
The esd_pci331 driver from the SVN repository is for an intelligent card, if I remember correctly. But using an intelligent card just for the raw CAN protocol seems kind of overkill to me. > We should probably start a new thread about this, it is getting > off-topic for Pavel's CAN driver. Is the socketcan mailing list ok for > this kind of discussion? Of course, if it's about Socket-CAN. Wolfgang. > Thanks, > Ira > _______________________________________________ > Socketcan-core mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core > > _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
