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From: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
To: Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com>
Cc: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List  <linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Toggling GPIO at 38Khz
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:26:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ED6BE5.30908@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c32efac40810081524q15b0a747oe49de0cf0a2aa2e2@mail.gmail.com>

Dave Hylands wrote:

> You could also do something similar if you have a SPI interface. Just
> set the clock to the right frequency and use the bits sent out to
> generate your pulses.

Good point.  I have seen that very thing done before, albeit for something other
than IRDA.  SPI is particularly nice for that, because you don't have to deal
with the start/stop bits imposed by UART protocols.


b.g.
-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08  3:43 Toggling GPIO at 38Khz Jon Smirl
2008-10-08  6:40 ` Eric Miao
2008-10-09  8:38   ` Andy Green
2008-10-08 12:01 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-08 13:06   ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-08 17:00     ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-08 21:58     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-10-08 18:57 ` Remy Bohmer
2008-10-08 22:24   ` Dave Hylands
2008-10-09  2:26     ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2008-10-09 17:53     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
     [not found] <bkydL-21G-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-08 12:15 ` Bodo Eggert

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