Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:57:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, vova@express.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) Message-ID: <3C82D470.8043DE47@mindspring.com> References: <1015155065.1775.2.camel@vbook.express.ru> <200203032107.g23L7I000782@mass.dis.org> <20020303.143524.04493774.imp@village.org>
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"M. Warner Losh" 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? Yes; it would allow remote control protocols, and some IrDa self-clocking protocols that aren't possible if you treat the thing as an internally clocked 16550 with no special capabilities. It's like a parallel port that supports mode 1, 2, and 3, instead of just mode 1. Not that there's a driver for it that should prevent the SIO patch going in so we can at least use printers and PPP over IR, if we want. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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