The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB, AKA HP-IB) has finally received stable drivers, and will be merged in the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/switching-from-windows-to-linux,37406.html” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/switching-from-windows-to-linux,37406.html”>Linux 6.19 kernel release, 53 years after it was launched by HP. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPIB-De-Staged-Linux-6.19″ data-url=”https://www.phoronix.com/news/GPIB-De-Staged-Linux-6.19″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Phoronix explains that GPIB support was first added to the mainline Linux kernel last year, but now they have been declared stable.
This driver addition was highlighted by Greg Kroah-Hartman in a staging pull request for Linux 6.19-rc1. “Here is the big set of staging driver updates for 6.19-rc1,” wrote Kroah-Hartman….
