Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:53:45 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IrDA and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200102141853.f1EIrjW90327@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:39:59 %2B0200." <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> References: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
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In message <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Panagiotis Astithas writes: : implement the lower protocol layer on top of ng_tty, essentially : doing something like IrDA-over-serial? If that was possible I : guess we don't have to implement any drivers at all, and we : could concentrate on the higher layers of the IrDA protocol, : essentially supporting every infrared dongle out there. : Taht woudl work, but only for testing purposes. The SIR chips can operate in serial mode. I don't know if they can do IrDA over a normal serial connection or not, but I do know that communications is possible. FIR chipsets require drivers because they are much faster and have a different API than the gold old 16550. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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