Diamond Libera EPICS Driver

[Michael Abbott <michael.abbott@diamond.ac.uk>]

This announcement is rather tardy, but here it is.

The Libera Electron Beam Position Monitor (www.i-tech.si) has a variety of 
device support options, including Tango and a somewhat minimal EPICS 
driver provided by the vendor.  However at Diamond we have developed an
EPICS driver which supports all of the functionality available from 
Libera.

This driver has gone through a number of releases, and has been in 
operation at Diamond for several years.  For the last year I've been 
unable to make source releases due to a conversation with the vendor about 
providing access to register level documentation.  As they have now 
released their reference driver under the GPL we can now publish the 
Diamond Libera EPICS driver.

Previous releases have been published through SourceForge, at
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/libera-epics
but I am underwhelmed by recent developments there (I know they have to 
make their money somehow) and we've finally got our own external web space 
working.  So to download the Diamond Libera EPICS driver please visit
	http://controls.diamond.ac.uk/downloads/libera

The current release works with most extant versions of the Libera core 
software (basically the Linux install, device driver and FPGA 
distribution), but not yet with the Libera 2.0 release.  If you're 
interested in using our driver with Libera 2.0, please drop me a line -- I 
should have this working very soon.