Re: LIRC

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Hi!

wejacobs "wej...@be..." wrote:
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> 1.	One of the LIRC supported hardware interfaces uses DTR on a serial
> port.  The Intel hardware reference design does not have a serial port.
> However there are plenty of GPIO ports available.  I assume a small software
> change is possible to use a GPIO pin instead of DTR?

If you look at the code, you'll see that the NSLU2 already uses a GPIO  
pin.

> 2.	There appears to be a large library of remote codes for all the
> various TV, etc. remotes out there.  Is this as rich as it seems?

It's all user contributed. No quality assurance possible...

> 3.	How robust is the DTR hardware solution?

I wouldn't recommend using bit-banging solutions like these because during  
transmit you _have to_ block all IRQs.

Christoph