[Tinyos-devel] potential micaz flash issues

[Philip Levis]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Janos Sallai wrote:

> I have recently learned that newer micaz motes and OEM modules use  
> a newer version of the at45db, which is not fully backwards  
> compatible with the old version.
>
>
>
> From my experiences with the iris mote, which has the new version  
> (at45db041d), the micaz code would not work with the new chip.  
> Could anybody verify this by running the flash test apps on a  
> recently purchased micaz?
>

Is there any way for software to detect which chip a node has? This  
is going to be pretty hairy, if you have to include both chip  
implementations and switch between then at runtime. Or are the  
differences trivial? It would be nice to avoid the 433/900MHz mica2  
debacle.

Phil