From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 13:55:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vbook.express.ru (vbook.nc.express.ru [212.24.37.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5D537B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by vbook.express.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16hdx5-000ELK-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:55:31 +0300 Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: imp@village.org In-Reply-To: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org> References: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 04 Mar 2002 00:55:31 +0300 Message-Id: <1015192531.994.5.camel@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 00:42, Michael Smith wrote: > > But would an IrDA specific driver do anything differently than sio > > would? SIR is effectively an 16550 UART from what I've seen so far. > > Maybe I'm missing something? > > Well, except that it has no flow control, is only half-duplex, and you > might want to attach an IrDa stack to the device. > > If all the IrDa stack work is being done in userland, then this probably > makes sense. If not, then at the very least, sio(4) needs to behave > differently in the case of a SIR port. The only implementation of IrDA stack for FreeBSD I know (not finished) uses netgraph interface of sio driver. I am use Infra-red port to access my HP200LX via IR (no IrDA) with lxtools package And Linux use /dev/ttyS? to refer infra-red ports. -- TSB "Russian Express", Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message