On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
[snip]
> there's a few of us working on IrDA
>
> 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
> driving.
> It does make it possible to do the IrDA protocols over
> a serial link (or even just a serial Ir Link)
> This aproach can work with some devices.
[snip]
> We will write a netgraph enabled driver for each chip, until
> 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 at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~benno/irda.tar.gz
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Benno Rice
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