Compatibility layer for pyvisa?

Hi

My understanding is this:
* linux-gpib implements drivers for many GPIB interfaces and provides a 
  userspace API on top of that, which is great.
* pyvisa depends on vendor drivers like NI-VISA or the equivalent of 
  other vendors.

Is this correct?

I tried to get NI-VISA working yesterday in order to be able to use 
pyvisa with a NI PCI board, on a distribution that they do not want to 
support, on a i686 box.  I gave up after some hours, the configure 
script they have in there was written by drunk monkeys.

So, here is my question: Did anybody consider to make the linux-gpib 
drivers available to pyvisa?

-Alex

[1] https://www.ni.com/de-at/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-kal.html#334223