Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:44:21 +1100 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 Message-ID: <20011230004421.A39124@rafe.jeamland.net> In-Reply-To: <20011229143602.G33329@laptop.6bone.nl>; from marks@ripe.net on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:36:02PM %2B0100 References: <20011228192133.V300-100000@korben> <20011228.175854.108930894.imp@village.org> <20011229143602.G33329@laptop.6bone.nl>
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--ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:58:54PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > : *) I guess noone has tried to write an IrDA stack yet, so I can't use= the > > : Infrared port? > >=20 > > NetBSD has had some code committed to it recently that at least > > partially implements IrDA. You[*] may want to look at porting it. >=20 > To be more specific, it does precisely nothing that has to do with > IrDA.... :-) >=20 > What they did is import the driver framework and a driver for the Toshiba > OBOE chipset. The only thing they can do now is get raw frames to > userland, something that FreeBSD is capable of doing since I started > working on it (months ago). (I ported that driver from Linux back then) >=20 > The IrDA protocol stack I am now developing, I do from scratch to prevent > copyright problems. [snip] =20 > I don't know about their (NetBSD) plans to also write the stack but it > might be wise to do that cooperating with us. NetBSD has a userland IrDA stack in their pkgsrc (read ports) collection. I'm going to give it a shot when I get my laptop in the next week or so. I can't find the name of it at the moment, but I believe it's something like birda. --=20 Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwtyLQACgkQbQx7xhW+Eg7HngCeJxajLhnaQGOlhZciHP0fOiwu RdcAni02nuZShOK0uQ3gblZB07ZLTvjg =5tuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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