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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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