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News Release from: Strategic Test | Subject: Linux drivers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2006
Linux drivers for CompactPCI cards
Strategic Test has announced the release of new Linux drivers for kernel 2.6 versions of RedHat, SuSe and Fedora distributions.
Strategic Test has announced the release of new Linux drivers for kernel 2.6 versions of RedHat, SuSe and Fedora distributions The kernel 2.4 drivers have also been updated
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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In response to customer requests, the UltraFast range of high-speed A/D, D/A and digital I/O boards from Strategic Test are now supplied with Linux drivers.
Linux kernel 2.6 gives increased stability and near to real-time operating system performance, useful for measurement and signal generation applications.
A single driver supports all of the products and in line with the company's policy on free of charge lifetime software updates it can be downloaded from its company website support area.
The driver source code is also available on request.
This is important since the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels, as increasingly the user needs to recompile the driver on their host PC, particularly if they have modified the distribution for multi-processor operation.
It can also be used to port the driver to other Linux distributions such as Scientific Linux and operating systems including VxWorks.
The same simple programming concept found in the other Windows and Linux drivers has been employed, allowing customers to upgrade their OS without modifying their application code.
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