Grub and IR remote control?

Grub and IR remote control?

[Petr Tomasek]

Hello!

I've build microchip based IR remote control receiver,
that can wake my PC (it's connected via the RS232
and it utilizes the RIng line that can be used with
WOR capables motherboards).

Now the receiver knows by wich IR code was the PC
waked (it can be programmed to which codes to listen
or not to), so I thought it would be nice, if
grub could grab this code from the receiver
(it's just simple sending a command to the RS232
and reading the response) and choose what to start
accordingly.

Now my question: could someone point me, where could
start trying hacking? Should I use grub2, or grub1?
Is there some framework already, that I could reuse?

Thank's a lot!

Petr Tomasek

P.S. I haven't published the schematics and firmware
for the receiver yet, but I hope to do that in the
future.

-- 
Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

Re: Grub and IR remote control?

[Tomas Ebenlendr]

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've build microchip based IR remote control receiver,
> that can wake my PC (it's connected via the RS232
> and it utilizes the RIng line that can be used with
> WOR capables motherboards).
> 
> Now the receiver knows by wich IR code was the PC
> waked (it can be programmed to which codes to listen
> or not to), so I thought it would be nice, if
> grub could grab this code from the receiver
> (it's just simple sending a command to the RS232
> and reading the response) and choose what to start
> accordingly.
> 
> Now my question: could someone point me, where could
> start trying hacking? Should I use grub2, or grub1?
> Is there some framework already, that I could reuse?
> 
> Thank's a lot!
> 
> Petr Tomasek
> 
> P.S. I haven't published the schematics and firmware
> for the receiver yet, but I hope to do that in the
> future.
> 
> -- 
> Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

Grub 2 hacking should be somewhat easier. It is enough to write a module
providing the command to read the port. On the other hand, grub2 is
still in development, and sometimes does not work.

Grub legacy is stable, but not feature-maintained anymore, so if you want to
publish your feature to grub 1, you should do it via patch on your web-pages.

P.S.: I don't know how looks grub legacy inside, I'm hacking only for 2.
-- 
                                 Tomas 'ebi' Ebenlendr
                                 http://get.to/ebik
                                 PF 2004.97370054139

Re: Grub and IR remote control?

[Petr Tomasek]

> 
> Grub 2 hacking should be somewhat easier. It is enough to write a module
> providing the command to read the port. On the other hand, grub2 is
> still in development, and sometimes does not work.
> 
> Grub legacy is stable, but not feature-maintained anymore, so if you want to
> publish your feature to grub 1, you should do it via patch on your web-pages.
> 
> P.S.: I don't know how looks grub legacy inside, I'm hacking only for 2.
> -- 
>                                  Tomas 'ebi' Ebenlendr
>                                  http://get.to/ebik
>                                  PF 2004.97370054139

OK, but how long could it take until the grub2 will be included
in main linux distros (and be stable of course;)?

Thanks!

Petr Tomasek

-- 
Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

Re: Grub and IR remote control?

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:51, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> OK, but how long could it take until the grub2 will be included
> in main linux distros (and be stable of course;)?

You should ask that question to them rather than to us. We ourselves 
don't make distributions.

It is undoubtful, however, that it would be faster if you contribute to 
GRUB 2. We need more manpower.

Okuji