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After all these years, IEEE-488 gets a stable Linux driver

Summary by adafruit.com
GPIB was used on vintage lab instruments and similar hardware. It was later adopted by the Commodore 64 and Acorn computer peripherals under the IEEE-488 banner. The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB, AKA HP-IB) has finally received stable drivers, and will be merged in the Linux 6.19 kernel release, 53 years after it was launched by HP. Phoronix explains that GPIB support was first added to the mainline Linux kernel last year, but now they ha…
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adafruit.com broke the news in on Monday, December 29, 2025.
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