[Arm-netbook] IR controller in Allwinner 10

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Note that this has to be a hardware timer pin. The kind that will give
> you the number of microseconds between edges. It is too hard to time
> these pulses completely in software. Not all GPIO pins are the same.
> Only a few will have the timer interrupt capability. You want them to
> interrupt on each edge and then record the number of microseconds in a
> FIFO that is gets passed to the kernel's IR subsystem.

 hmmm... there's 32 EINT pins (hardware interrupts).  in a pinch, you
think that'd do?

 what's the data rate on IR?

 l.