Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:39:59 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: IrDA and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
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Hi folks, I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effort to port the irda-utils-0.9.13 from linux, particularly the findchip thing (I have to know what adapter my laptop has :-)). Therefore I would like to ask if anybody has already done the job, and perhaps there was some other area I could contribute. I have read in the archives the discussion of about a month ago, that involved the netgraph approach. While I think it's a great idea, I would like to ask a perhaps naive question: can't we implement the lower protocol layer on top of ng_tty, essentially doing something like IrDA-over-serial? If that was possible I guess we don't have to implement any drivers at all, and we could concentrate on the higher layers of the IrDA protocol, essentially supporting every infrared dongle out there. Cheers, -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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