Date: 04 Mar 2002 00:55:31 +0300 From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov <vova@express.ru> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: imp@village.org Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) Message-ID: <1015192531.994.5.camel@vbook.express.ru> In-Reply-To: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org> References: <200203032142.g23LgV001032@mass.dis.org>
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On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 00:42, Michael Smith wrote: > > But would an IrDA specific driver do anything differently than sio > > would? SIR is effectively an 16550 UART from what I've seen so far. > > Maybe I'm missing something? > > Well, except that it has no flow control, is only half-duplex, and you > might want to attach an IrDa stack to the device. > > If all the IrDa stack work is being done in userland, then this probably > makes sense. If not, then at the very least, sio(4) needs to behave > differently in the case of a SIR port. The only implementation of IrDA stack for FreeBSD I know (not finished) uses netgraph interface of sio driver. I am use Infra-red port to access my HP200LX via IR (no IrDA) with lxtools package And Linux use /dev/ttyS? to refer infra-red ports. -- TSB "Russian Express", Moscow Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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