From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 9 22:24:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hunkular.glarp.com (hunkular.glarp.com [199.117.25.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D35B37B402 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hunkular.glarp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hunkular.glarp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0A6Op987767; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:24:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from huntting@hunkular.glarp.com) Message-Id: <200201100624.g0A6Op987767@hunkular.glarp.com> To: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IR port on Vaio 505 In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Jan 2002 19:50:00 EST." <1010623804.3214.0.camel@vpn6.ece.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:24:51 -0700 From: Brad Huntting Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > On my laptop (not a vaio) that means I didn't force the port and IRQ in > the BIOS, or I disabled it there. Autoconfigure doesn't work. Oops... Setting the correct Port and IRQ got it attached (as sio2, doh!) I suspect that this would be a good time to write a new driver for the PC87109 family of IR ports; since in addition to IR, they have an an "Enhanced UART" mode which, among other things, can operate 13 times faster than the standard UART, and supports DMA. This brings up the strange dual nature of these devices. On the one hand they can be used as (real) serial ports, which means they need to be character devices and use a line discipline. On the other hand, since a line discipline must be fed incoming characters one at a time, it is completely impractical for high speed packet data. Any thoughts? brad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message