Subject: Re: NetBSD + Ericsson I888 World phone
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/03/1999 20:01:58
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 01:56:15PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> I'm very surprised by this, because if you're doing IrCOMM then you're
> doing IrLAP and IrLMP as well, which is a lot of code to stuff into
> a BIOS.  What machines have this ability?  (And where the heck does
> the code run to implement the protocol stack .... how could you do this
> without OS support?).

Note that the BIOS isn't doing anything other than setting a mode
bit or whatever.

Anyway, I may have it wrong about IrCOMM but the devices/machines
in question can at least talk to other devices playing "9K6-115K2
serial", which I assumed would be IrCOMM.


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Soren