From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus) Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? Date: 06 Dec 2009 13:12:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910912041628g5bedc9d2jbee3b0861aeb5511@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9e4733910912041628g5bedc9d2jbee3b0861aeb5511@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org To: jonsmirl@gmail.com Cc: awalls@radix.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, jarod@wilsonet.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, kraxel@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@redhat.com, superm1@ubuntu.com List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Jon, on 04 Dec 09 at 19:28, Jon Smirl wrote: >> BTW, I just came across a XMP remote that seems to generate 3x64 bit >> scan codes. Anyone here has docs on the XMP protocol? > > Assuming a general purpose receiver (not one with fixed hardware > decoding), is it important for Linux to receive IR signals from all > possible remotes no matter how old or obscure? Or is it acceptable to [...] > Of course transmitting is a completely different problem, but we > haven't been talking about transmitting. I can see how we would need > to record any IR protocol in order to retransmit it. But that's in the > 5% of users world, not the 90% that want MythTV to "just work". Use > something like LIRC if you want to transmit. I don't think anyone here is in the position to be able to tell what is 90% or 5%. Personally I use LIRC exclusively for transmit to my settop box using an old and obscure RECS80 protocol. No, I won't replace my setup just because it's old and obscure. Cable companies tend to provide XMP based boxes to subscribers more often these days. Simply not supporting these setups is a no-go for me. Christoph