Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:07:32 +0100 From: Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk> To: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing userspace device drivers Message-ID: <4820C894.9030507@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200805062020.46554.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <4820AE1D.2080703@cam.ac.uk> <200805062020.46554.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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Pollywog wrote: > 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 Caché 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. > Thanks for the pointer. I did mean FUSD, http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/fusd/, although looking at FUSE, it may well be that that'll do what I need. Regards, Chris
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