From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 9:57:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3582F37B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA2HvQn39564; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:57:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA09381; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:57:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011021757.KAA09381@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Silbersack Subject: Re: AW: Accessing the tty structure of an opened device Cc: Mike Smith , Alexander Maret , "'Poul-Henning Kamp'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:23:48 CDT." References: Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:57:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Mike Silbersack writes: : > Stop trying to do this; you cannot poll the serial line at anything like : > a useful speed to perform IR decoding. The entire approach you're trying : > to take is unworkable. : : Hm, it seems like every motherboard made in the last few years has some : hookup for an IR port that will act as com 2. Are the parts for those : available? (Or would alexander be able to adapt his IR device to that : interface somehow?) The IR there is IrDA which is an extreme subset of the possible I/R applications. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message