Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:09:00 +1100 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: IrDA and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010215110900.A37822@rafe.jeamland.net> In-Reply-To: <3A8ABAAD.A750B67F@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800 References: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <3A8ABAAD.A750B67F@elischer.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [snip] > there's a few of us working on IrDA > > yes we CAN use the ng_tty node for the low speed SIR > implimentation.(And we plan on doing so for systems that > only have the tty interface. Most laptops these days have > a more comprehensive IrDA chip/module and require more specific > driving. > It does make it possible to do the IrDA protocols over > a serial link (or even just a serial Ir Link) > This aproach can work with some devices. [snip] > We will write a netgraph enabled driver for each chip, until > we have a better idea of what the commone elements are at which point > we may extract out a common netgraph/irda-phys module to support > all the chips. That is assuming we find commonality.. Linux has > but our choice of selecting common code > may turn out to be different from theirs so we are not just copying. Using Linux's code won't be very easy with the Netgraph way of doing things, from what I can see. My initial code for the IrDA netgraph nodes I was working on is available at: http://people.freebsd.org/~benno/irda.tar.gz -- Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqLHhwACgkQbQx7xhW+Eg4cTwCfSibhXj7Mk6SEMdDSGNhFgdwc oZoAn3Xs1+iTt8P8dat0JoRKl/UFVmOZ =Yw5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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