[Tinyos-devel] TINYOS_NP and BNP

[Razvan Musaloiu-E.]

Hi!

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Vlado Handziski wrote:

> I don't remember exactly who came up with the naming. Most probably Gil,
> Cory or Joe. I always interpreted NP as Network Programming and the B as
> Bootloader, but I can be wrong. I don't think that we need any backward
> compatibility with tinyos-1.x on this, so I would say go ahead and select
> whatever makes more sense for the new Deluge/Bootloader.

I propose to use BOOTLOADER instead of TINYOS_NP and tosboot for BNP. 
Interested parties are invited to comment about this.

--
Razvan ME

>
> Vlado
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. <razvanm at cs.jhu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Vlado Handziski wrote:
>>
>>  What in particular do you want to know?
>>>
>>
>> I want to know what BNP stands for and if we can pick a more descriptive
>> name for it.
>>
>>  At some point of time it was decided that all tinyos-1.x apps have Deluge
>>> bundled with each install. This was done with two consecutive burns. The
>>> first one was the app burn and the second was the bootloader burn. The above
>>> environmental variables were used to instruct the make system to make this
>>> second burn install the bootloader and make the install without the normal
>>> erase step.
>>>
>>
>> Right now the bootloader is not installed by default so each application
>> needs to include TINYOS_NP=BPN in their Makefiles. Could we change to
>> something more descriptive like 'BOOTLOADER=tosboot'?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Razvan ME
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. <razvanm at cs.jhu.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody relate the history of TINYOS_NP and BNP?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Razvan ME
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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