Re: [patch] turn off backlight on 12" pbook

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > I'd have to have a remote host to attach in the first place. That's a
> > real sick idea there. I'd rather hack xmon over ethernet :-)
>
> Well, it's actually far from beeing sick :) The nice thing is that the
> 1394 protocol let a node tap physical addresses in the memory of
> another node. The actual "meaning" of those addresses is dependent on
> the kind of node, but typically, if you enable it on the OHCI controller
> (done by default by our driver), the "remote" machine can tap directly
> to any memory location of the target.

_Any_ memory location?? s/sick/evil/ ...

> Writing a small stub just enabling that "feature" of the controller
> early is much more easier than writing an ethernet stub. Also, I already
> wrote the small horrible polled protocol for xmon to discuss with a
> remote host that way :)

OK, but without firewire hardware to play on, I'll rather resort to just
dumping UDP or whatever packets out to the net. If all else fails, that
is.

	Michael