From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 16:12:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED9A37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA80B70606; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:12:27 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:09:00 +1100 From: Benno Rice To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: IrDA and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010215110900.A37822@rafe.jeamland.net> References: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <3A8ABAAD.A750B67F@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8ABAAD.A750B67F@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [snip] =20 > there's a few of us working on IrDA >=20 > yes we CAN use the ng_tty node for the low speed SIR > implimentation.(And we plan on doing so for systems that > only have the tty interface. Most laptops these days have > a more comprehensive IrDA chip/module and require more specific=20 > driving. > It does make it possible to do the IrDA protocols over=20 > a serial link (or even just a serial Ir Link) > This aproach can work with some devices. [snip] =20 > We will write a netgraph enabled driver for each chip, until=20 > we have a better idea of what the commone elements are at which point > we may extract out a common netgraph/irda-phys module to support > all the chips. That is assuming we find commonality.. Linux has > but our choice of selecting common code > may turn out to be different from theirs so we are not just copying. Using Linux's code won't be very easy with the Netgraph way of doing things, from what I can see. My initial code for the IrDA netgraph nodes I was working on is available a= t: http://people.freebsd.org/~benno/irda.tar.gz --=20 Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqLHhwACgkQbQx7xhW+Eg4cTwCfSibhXj7Mk6SEMdDSGNhFgdwc oZoAn3Xs1+iTt8P8dat0JoRKl/UFVmOZ =Yw5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message