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ddc
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 Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject: serial on Infra red |
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hi
i have an arm pxa270 device which has 3 serial port
/dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS2
an IrDA-SIR (chip) device is attached to /dev/ttyS1. and this uart should be used as "the Infra red port"
ok. in kernel tree i find a proper kernel module drivers/net/irda/pxaficp_ir.c
which works well if you want to use all the IRDA stack, in order to have an Infra red net device
(ifconfig -l report irda0, but you also need irattach in order to bridge the dev with the IrDA stack
i tested it, and i was able to infra red telent 2 machines ... )
ok, this is pretty, but ...
... i do not want an IrDA device, i just want a serial over Ir, pretty handles as i handle /dev/ttyS0: directly !
the question is: how to do that ? i am a bit confused about ircomm & his "strange" friends
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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The irda software instructs a particular IR port to understand irda protocol to automatically detect clients, etc.
If you have a standard serial port hooked up to the ir port, you should be able to just use some serial terminal software on /dev/ttySX -- most SIR serial IR should be able to do that... just make sure the irda protocol is disabled (in a module and unloaded, etc.)
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ddc
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | | just make sure the irda protocol is disabled (in a module and unloaded, etc.) |
that is the problem: how to disable the irda protocol
i think i will have to hack the kernel module, there is something strange i have not understood
the hardware i am talking about has
pxa2xx-uart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40100000 (irq = 22) is a FFUART
pxa2xx-uart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x40200000 (irq = 21) is a BTUART
pxa2xx-uart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x40700000 (irq = 20) is a STUART
ttyS1 is attached to a SIR chip, which is attached to IR led and IR photo transistor (both packed into a SHARP package)
ok
so the problem is:
if i setserial ttyS1 (be mapped at 0x40200000, be using irq = 21), and then i invoke minicom ... well, i get nothing out of the ttyS1 port, and nothing in the ttyS1 ... it seems the port is not working at all
sorry man =(
if i modprobe the kernel module of the IRDA-SIR (pxaficp_ir) ... than i see lsmod
* IRDA module has been loaded
* pxaficp_ir module has been loaded
if i toy with irattach irda0 wow i see something going out the ttyS1 port (i can see the hostame chars, for example, so the ir tx is working)
i can't remove the IRDA kernel module: it has been in use (the pxaficp_ir is using it)
if i remove the pxaficp_ir ... well everything stops to work
so ... may be any kernel hacking is required =P ? |
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eccerr0r
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Supposedly ircomm is an overlay to make a remote device look like a serial port, not the actual IR link.
I couldn't find anything about unbinding an irattached serial port... Not sure if this is even possible after it's bound at this point.
Oh well, so much for weird hardware... need more ram on my sl-5600 
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