[Tinyos-devel] TINYOS_NP and BNP

[Vlado Handziski]

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.

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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