[Tinyos Core WG] Fwd: tinyos group

[Philip Levis]

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> From: Laurynas Riliskis <laurynas.riliskis at ltu.se>
> Date: July 16, 2009 2:23:12 AM PDT
> To: Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: tinyos group
>
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> Philip,
>
> I'm very happy with you answer and the positive attitude of core  
> group.
> Bellow you will find answer to your concerns.
>
>
> Philip Levis skrev:
>> On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Laurynas Riliskis wrote:
>>
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>>> Dear Phil,
>>>
>>> Apologies for my impatience, I'm wondering if you have discussed the
>>> matter of accepting mulle platform to the mine distribution.
>>>
>>> Sincerely your
>>>
>>> Laurynas
>>
>> Laurynas,
>>
>> Overall, core was very positive about adding a new platform. Two
>> questions came up in the discussion:
>>
>> 1) Can mulle work with the standard TinyOS build system? The group  
>> was
>> very wary of including an additional build system in the install
>> instructions.
> We have developed build system according to TinyOS advices.  
> Additionally
> the user need to install compiler for the chip m16c62p (GNU gcc) and
> bootloader Simple M16C Flasher and for it is required package  
> pySerial.
> Both are free and available for download and installation on many  
> linux
> distributions. However we have not tested to install under cigwin.
>
> You are wellcome to review current installation instruction at
> http://www.eistec.se/docs/wiki/index.php?title=TinysOS_Mulle_-_Installation
>
>>
>> 2) How will some of the supporting libraries (IP/TCP) coordinate with
>> existing efforts in the TinyOS tree, and what is the relationship  
>> with
>> other code bases (if any)?
>
> Mulle's radio chip is RF230 and we a testing RF212. We are using
> standard drivers from TinyOS core for the chips. Any code developed  
> for
> and used with this chip should work on our platform. Further we have
> tested most of the existing app without any problems. Currently we a
> adding support for flash memory and PPL. If exist we use core  
> interfaces
> and doing our best to make platform based standard code three. It is  
> my
> believe that it is important for our platform to strictly follow  
> TinyOS
> code three so that applications are as much as possible platform
> independent.
>
> Besides new platform our contribution to the core would be:
> m16c62p mcu with PLL support, (mcu working, PLL under testing)
> RV8564-C2 microcrystal, working
> DS2782 temperature and battery sensor (in progress)
> AT45DB161D flash memory (in progress)
> MMA7261QT 3-axis accelerometer (in progress)
> software2c
> softwarespi
>
>
>> Phil
>
> I'm would be happy to answer any other question you may have.
>
> Regards
> Laurynas
>
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