From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 14:28:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hilfy.ece.cmu.edu (HILFY.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B4C37B404; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net (root@VPN58.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.58]) by hilfy.ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id g23MRwT05828; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:27:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from allbery@localhost) by rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g23MS0a38974; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:28:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net: allbery set sender to allbery@ece.cmu.edu using -f Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Michael Smith Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , vova@express.ru, current@FreeBSD.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: 03 Mar 2002 17:28:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1015194480.33938.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> 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 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