Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 20:20:45 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing userspace device drivers Message-ID: <200805062020.46554.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <4820AE1D.2080703@cam.ac.uk> References: <4820AE1D.2080703@cam.ac.uk>
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR > signals via a Global Cach=E9 GC-100. In essence, this requires me to > communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) > via /dev/lircX. > > Can anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this? Is it > possible to do everything in userspace? Under Linux, there appears to > be something called FUSD, which allows one to write userspace device > drivers. Is there anything similar under FreeBSD? Do you mean FUSE? There is FUSE for FreeBSD. I have used it with EncFS.
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