Sean Young says:
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The kernel IR decoders (drivers/media/rc/ir-*-decoder.c) support the most
widely used IR protocols, but there are many protocols which are not
supported[1]. For example, the lirc-remotes[2] repo has over 2700 remotes,
many of which are not supported by rc-core. There is a "long tail" of
unsupported IR protocols, for which lircd is need to decode the IR .
IR encoding is done in such a way that some simple circuit can decode it;
therefore, bpf is ideal.
In order to support all these protocols, here we have bpf based IR decoding.
The idea is that user-space can define a decoder in bpf, attach it to
the rc device through the lirc chardev.
Separate work is underway to extend ir-keytable to have an extensive library
of bpf-based decoders, and a much expanded library of rc keymaps.
Another future application would be to compile IRP[3] to a IR BPF program, and
so support virtually every remote without having to write a decoder for each.
It might also be possible to support non-button devices such as analog
directional pads or air conditioning remote controls and decode the target
temperature in bpf, and pass that to an input device.
[1] http://www.hifi-remote.com/wiki/index.php?title=DecodeIR
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc-remotes/code/ci/master/tree/remotes/
[3] http://www.hifi-remote.com/wiki/index.php?title=IRP_Notation
Changes since v4:
- Renamed rc_dev_bpf_{attach,detach,query} to lirc_bpf_{attach,detach,query}
- Fixed error path in lirc_bpf_query
- Rebased on bpf-next
Changes since v3:
- Implemented review comments from Quentin Monnet and Y Song (thanks!)
- More helpful and better formatted bpf helper documentation
- Changed back to bpf_prog_array rather than open-coded implementation
- scancodes can be 64 bit
- bpf gets passed values in microseconds, not nanoseconds.
microseconds is more than than enough (IR receivers support carriers upto
70kHz, at which point a single period is already 14 microseconds). Also,
this makes it much more consistent with lirc mode2.
- Since it looks much more like lirc mode2, rename the program type to
BPF_PROG_TYPE_LIRC_MODE2.
- Rebased on bpf-next
Changes since v2:
- Fixed locking issues
- Improved self-test to cover more cases
- Rebased on bpf-next again
Changes since v1:
- Code review comments from Y Song <ys114321@gmail.com> and
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
- Re-wrote sample bpf to be selftest
- Renamed RAWIR_DECODER -> RAWIR_EVENT (Kconfig, context, bpf prog type)
- Rebase on bpf-next
- Introduced bpf_rawir_event context structure with simpler access checking
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>