Re: [ANN] Lunatik -- NetBSD kernel scripting with Lua (GSoC project

[Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto@...>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Patrick Mc(avery
<spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> Hi Lourival

Hi Patrick,

> Could someone write a device driver with it alone?

Yes, it is perfectly possible, however you should need some binds to
kernel internals to do something useful. In the NetBSD kernel, you
would probably need binds to device driver configuration (e.g.,
autoconf(9), driver(9)) and to device driver API (e.g., bus_dma(9),
bus_space(9)).

> There are GPIB interface cards that work with scientific instruments/ test &
> measurement equipment. They are extremely painful to install on un*x.
>
> Thanks for are your hard work, this looks interesting-Patrick

If you try, please let me know your results ;-).

Cheers,
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Lourival Vieira Neto