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
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