lincan-0.3.3/doc/lincandoc/lincan/lincan_summary.xml

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   2 <section>
   3 <title>Summary</title>
   4
   5   <variablelist>
   6     <varlistentry>
   7       <term>Name of the component</term>
   8
   9       <listitem>
  10         <para>Linux CAN Driver (LINCAN)</para>
  11       </listitem>
  12     </varlistentry>
  13
  14     <varlistentry>
  15       <term>Author</term>
  16
  17       <listitem>
  18         <para><author><firstname>Pavel</firstname> <surname>Pisa</surname></author></para>
  19
  20         <para><author><firstname>Arnaud</firstname> <surname>Westenberg</surname></author></para>
  21
  22         <para><author><firstname>Tomasz</firstname> <surname>Motylewski</surname></author></para>
  23       </listitem>
  24     </varlistentry>
  25
  26     <varlistentry>
  27       <term>Maintainer</term>
  28
  29       <listitem>
  30         <para><author>
  31           <firstname>Pavel</firstname><surname>Pisa</surname>
  32           <affiliation>
  33             <address>E-mail: <email>pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz</email></address>
  34             <address>WWW: <otheraddr><ulink url="http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa"></ulink></otheraddr></address>
  35           </affiliation>
  36         </author></para>
  37       </listitem>
  38     </varlistentry>
  39
  40     <varlistentry>
  41       <term>LinCAN Internet resources</term>
  42
  43       <listitem>
  44         <para><ulink url="http://www.ocera.org"></ulink> OCERA project home page</para>
  45
  46         <para><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocera"></ulink>
  47         OCERA SourceForge project page. The OCERA CVS relative path to LinCAN
  48         driver sources is</para>
  49         <para><ulink url="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ocera/ocera/components/comm/can/lincan/">
  50         <filename>ocera/components/comm/can/lincan</filename></ulink>.</para>
  51
  52         <para><ulink url="http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/can"></ulink> local testing directory</para>
  53       </listitem>
  54     </varlistentry>
  55
  56     <varlistentry>
  57       <term>Reviewer</term>
  58
  59       <listitem>
  60         <para>The previous driver versions were tested by more users. The
  61         actual version has been tested at CTU by more OCERA developers,
  62         by Unicontrols and  by BFAD GmbH, which use pre-OCERA and current
  63         version of the driver in their products.</para>
  64
  65         <itemizedlist>
  66           <title>List of the cards tested with latest version of the driver:</title>
  67           <listitem>
  68             <para>PC104 Advantech PCM3680 dual channel board on 2.4 RT-Linux enabled kernel</para>
  69           </listitem>
  70           <listitem>
  71             <para>PiKRON ISA card on 2.4.and 2.6 Linux kernels</para>
  72           </listitem>
  73           <listitem>
  74             <para>BfaD DIMM PC card on 2.4 RT-Linux enabled kernel</para>
  75           </listitem>
  76           <listitem>
  77             <para>KVASER pcican-q on 2.6 Linux kernel and on 2.4 RT-Linux enabled kernel</para>
  78           </listitem>
  79           <listitem>
  80             <para>virtual board tested on all systems as well</para>
  81           </listitem>
  82         </itemizedlist>
  83       </listitem>
  84     </varlistentry>
  85
  86     <varlistentry>
  87       <term>Supported layers</term>
  88       <listitem>
  89         <itemizedlist>
  90           <listitem>
  91             <para>High-level available</para>
  92             <para>Linux device interface available for soft real-time Linux only
  93             and for mixed-mode RT-Linux/Linux driver compilation</para>
  94           </listitem>
  95           <listitem>
  96             <para>Low-level available</para>
  97             <para>RT-Linux device is registered only for mixed-mode RT-Linux/Linux driver
  98             compilation. The driver messages transmition and receiption runs in hard real-time
  99             threads in such case.</para>
 100           </listitem>
 101         </itemizedlist>
 102       </listitem>
 103     </varlistentry>
 104
 105     <varlistentry>
 106       <term>Version</term>
 107
 108       <listitem>
 109         <para>lincan-0.3</para>
 110       </listitem>
 111     </varlistentry>
 112
 113     <varlistentry>
 114       <term>Status</term>
 115
 116       <listitem>
 117         <para>Beta</para>
 118       </listitem>
 119     </varlistentry>
 120
 121     <varlistentry>
 122       <term>Dependencies</term>
 123
 124       <listitem>
 125         <para>The driver requires CAN interface hardware for access to real CAN bus.</para>
 126         <para>Driver can be used even without hardware if a virtual board is configured.
 127         This setup is useful for testing of interworking of other CAN components.</para>
 128
 129         <para>Linux kernels from 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x series are fully
 130         supported.</para>
 131
 132         <para>The RT-Linux version 3.2 or OCERA RT-Linux enabled system is required
 133         for hard real-time use.</para>
 134
 135         <para>The RT-Linux version requires RT-Linux <function>malloc</function>,
 136         which is part of OCERA RT-Linux version and can be downloaded for
 137         older RT-Linux versions .</para>
 138
 139         <para>The use of VCA API library is suggested for seamless
 140         application transitions between driver kinds and versions.</para>
 141       </listitem>
 142     </varlistentry>
 143
 144     <varlistentry>
 145       <term>Supported hardware (some not tested)</term>
 146
 147       <listitem>
 148         <itemizedlist>
 149           <listitem>
 150             <para>Advantech PC-104 PCM3680 dual channel board</para>
 151           </listitem>
 152           <listitem>
 153             <para>PiKRON ISA card</para>
 154           </listitem>
 155           <listitem>
 156             <para>BfaD DIMM PC card</para>
 157           </listitem>
 158           <listitem>
 159             <para>KVASER PCIcan-Q, PCIcan-D, PCIcan-S</para>
 160           </listitem>
 161           <listitem>
 162             <para>KVASER PCcan-Q, PCcan-D, PCcan-S, PCcan-F</para>
 163           </listitem>
 164           <listitem>
 165             <para>MPL AG PIP5, PIP6, PIP7, PIP8</para>
 166           </listitem>
 167           <listitem>
 168             <para>NSI PC-104 board CAN104</para>
 169           </listitem>
 170           <listitem>
 171             <para>Contemporary Controls PC-104 board CAN104</para>
 172           </listitem>
 173           <listitem>
 174             <para>Arcom Control Systems PC-104 board AIM104CAN</para>
 175           </listitem>
 176           <listitem>
 177             <para>IXXAT ISA board PC-I03</para>
 178           </listitem>
 179           <listitem>
 180             <para>SECO PC-104 board M436</para>
 181           </listitem>
 182           <listitem>
 183             <para>Board support template sources for yet unsupported hardware</para>
 184           </listitem>
 185           <listitem>
 186             <para>Virtual board</para>
 187           </listitem>
 188         </itemizedlist>
 189       </listitem>
 190     </varlistentry>
 191
 192     <varlistentry>
 193       <term>Release date</term>
 194
 195       <listitem>
 196         <para>February 2004</para>
 197       </listitem>
 198     </varlistentry>
 199   </variablelist>
 200 </section>