From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 10:54:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0EC37B491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:54:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1EIrjW90327; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:53:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102141853.f1EIrjW90327@harmony.village.org> To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Subject: Re: IrDA and FreeBSD Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:39:59 +0200." <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> References: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:53:45 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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