On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 16:42, Michael Smith wrote: > 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.
While IrDA support is in userland at the moment (comms/birda port), someone is working on a netgraph interface for IrDA. I'm under the impression that this will include FIR device drivers; but since it's also based on birda, it will likely use sio for SIR devices. (Although the person(s) doing the ng work should probably speak up and correct me now....) -- brandon s. allbery [linux][solaris][japh][freebsd] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs][heimdal][too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
