Writing userspace device drivers

[Pollywog]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR
> signals via a Global Caché GC-100.  In essence, this requires me to
> communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?)
> via /dev/lircX.
>
> Can anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this?  Is it
> possible to do everything in userspace?  Under Linux, there appears to
> be something called FUSD, which allows one to write userspace device
> drivers.  Is there anything similar under FreeBSD?

Do you mean FUSE?  There is FUSE for FreeBSD.  I have used it with EncFS.