On 2022-04-13 11:59, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 12.04.22 18:36, Ivan F. Valerio via Xenomai wrote:
Hello,
I am looking to use Xenomai's analogy to connect my application to a
NI
PCIe DAQ card. I found your list of supported hardware for analogy,
and
the only PCIe found in your list are no longer supported by National
Instruments(PCIe-6251 & PCIe-6259). Are there any other PCIe cards
supported by Analogy? How would I go about confirming compatibility
with
the newer NI PCIe cards?
Analogy was about to be removed from Xenomai because no one was
contributing updates to it in a long while, particularly -but not only-
drivers. One user raised his voice that at least the core is still used
(with out-of-tree drivers), so that move was postponed. In that light,
it is a bit unlikely that you get much more feedback.
We are surely open to new contributors "reviving" part of Analogy
again,
specifically /wrt to newer hardware. The first step to assess the
efforts would likely be comparing older drivers and their manuals (or
kernel drivers, if any) to newer one, e.g. whether the register
interface is just an extension or rather something completely
different.
Jan
I am interested in perhaps doing an assessment and even submit patches
as
our application depends on Analogy support however I am not familiar
with
device driver development. Any Xenomai/Linux resources that you can
point
me to in order to get started? Thanks.
-Ivan
