On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ken Webster wrote:

> >Could anybody on the list point me in the right direction
> >to find info on how to communicate with my laptop's infrared port
> >using a microcontroller?
>
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/irda.html
>

Or re-phrased, has anyone written an IrDA stack for a pic? Would anyone
like to begin an Open Sourced pic-irda project? I for one would be
interested in participating and would be willing to host a web page. I
don't care to lead the project though.

A good place to begin would be with the Linux-IrDA project:

http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/

>From there, one could obtain the C-sources and theoretically port them to
the pic. The obvious caveats would be overcoming the memory assumptions
made. But, supporting a subset of IrDA would not be too difficult. I could
envision an SIR mode only interface on a pic with a UART (e.g. the C64),
and supporting the IrLAP, IrLMP, IAS, and a portion of TinyTP. IrCOMM
would be cool, but I really don't see legacy software needing it per se.

Any takers?

Scott