[Tinyos-alliance] Draft 8051 WG Charter

[Adam Wolisz]

I agree with Phil´s comments...
BEst
adam

Philip Levis wrote:

> On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Philippe Bonnet wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Following our last telecom, here is a draft charter for a WG around  
>> TinyOS for 8051. I finally chose a short version of the charter (as  
>> opposed to the core working group). I also chose to focus on the  
>> technical aspects (I considered adding some promotion aspects wrt  
>> the 8051 vendors and OEM but decided against it). I consider it is  
>> the workgroup responsibility to define the subset of 8051 versions  
>> for which an implementation is provided. It will I believe depends  
>> on the involvement of companies and OEMs. I also decided to have a  
>> quite open formulation about the toolchain and the necessary  
>> adaptation of Nesc in the absence of gcc.  Also, it is implicit in  
>> the charter that 8051 is outside the scope of the tinyos core. I  
>> considered that the mere existence of  a 8051 WG placed it outside  
>> the core. Would you agree?
>
>
> My sense is that right now, the 8051 is outside of the core. At  
> least, that's what the core WG thinks. So much of the design of  
> TinyOS (1.x and 2.x) hasn't considered the issues that the 8051  
> brings up.
>
> The core WG, however, is very interested in 8051 and wants it to  
> succeed. The price point of 8051 chips (and inclusion in SoC 15.4  
> solutions) means that it is a very important processor to consider. I  
> think that as the 8051 WG figures out where TinyOS fits and where it  
> doesn't, we might see the core evolve to try to bridge the gap. Right  
> now, it seems like a lot of the stumbling blocks are compiler issues,  
> rather than interfaces and components, but as 8051 digs deeper, more  
> might come to light.
>
> Phil
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