[Tinyos-devel] RE: [avr-gcc-list] Fwd: [Tinyos-help] TinyOs avr-gcc-4

[David Gay]

On 10/17/07, John Regehr <regehr at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > can meet in the middle, where we all win. TinyOS is a great idea for sensor
> > networks. I'd like to be able join forces to promote it further. I don't see
>
> It seems likely that the toolchain problems can be made to go away with
> modest effort.
>
> Another step towards meeting in the middle could build on the "binary
> component" feature of nesC, which was designed to support interoperation
> with plain C.  If some interfaces can be agreed upon, then drivers for
> various devices can be written in C and reused in TinyOS, MantisOS, and
> SoS.

Another variation on this approach is building a "kernel" in
nesC/TinyOS, which has a nice C interface for application-level
programs. I believe several people are looking into doing something
like this.

David Gay