Date: 03 Mar 2002 17:28:00 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, vova@express.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) Message-ID: <1015194480.33938.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org> References: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org>
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On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 16:42, Michael Smith wrote: > 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. While IrDA support is in userland at the moment (comms/birda port), someone is working on a netgraph interface for IrDA. I'm under the impression that this will include FIR device drivers; but since it's also based on birda, it will likely use sio for SIR devices. (Although the person(s) doing the ng work should probably speak up and correct me now....) -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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