[Tinyos-devel] ATmega128 UartByte Broken

[Philip Levis]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:02 PM, David Moss wrote:

> Alec -
>
> I checked out the Atm128UartP.nc and HplAtm128UartP.nc from that  
> branch and
> verified the version numbers.  After replacing my local files with  
> those, I
> compiled and installed the TestSerial application.
>
> In doing this, I was able to read messages on the computer side,  
> but could
> not send messages from the computer to the mote. No led's lit up,  
> and the
> console was stuck at "Sending packet 0". I haven't looked into it  
> any deeper
> than that at the moment.
>
> This new error prevents the unit test framework from running the  
> original
> UartByte test because the framework itself is dependent upon  
> sending packets
> to the mote to kick off each test.

It looks like the newer (Alec's in -devel) version is incorrectly  
leaving RX interrupts disabled on start.

I don't know what the issue in the main tree version is. David, can  
you give more detailed info on how it is failing the test?

Phil