From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tuna.sandelman.ca ([209.87.249.19]:37649 "EHLO tuna.sandelman.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757742AbcG1VT5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:19:57 -0400 From: Michael Richardson Subject: Re: Looking for boards with an 802.15.4 chip In-Reply-To: <20160728174051.GB75405@redhat.com> References: <20160728174051.GB75405@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:19:54 -0400 Message-ID: <10331.1469740794@obiwan.sandelman.ca> Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Don Zickus Cc: aar@pengutronix.de, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, linville@redhat.com --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Don Zickus wrote: > I was wondering what boards/chips folks like yourself use to develop/test > the 802.15.4 work? I noticed the website http://wpan.cakelab.org/ > mentions It depends a lot on what you want to do, what pieces you want to hack on, and what devices you want to interoperate with. The at86rf233 is popular and easily obtainable and Alex is doing lots of work to support it. Get the openlabs device. It seems that we might be able to support 6tisch on this device if we try hard enough, but for the moment you are restricted to 1 channel and aloha-only time slots. Many people are using openmote's connected via USB or via daughter card to an RPI. The openmote does the 6tisch stuff, but "bridges" (but/wrong term, but have yet to find a better one) the raw 6lowpan packets over USB using a custom encapsulation. (I'd like to change it to ppp actually) > I assume the SPI bus is easily found on a rPI-like board. Is it > difficult to hook one of them up to an x86 desktop? Yes, it's a bit painful since few desktops have easily accessible GPIO pins that you can turn into a SPI bus. You can add one with a FTDI USB interface easily, but given the cost of an RPI... hard to argue. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEVAwUBV5p2+ICLcPvd0N1lAQLOcgf7BDKcwz2B1lkEgfbAmOLnIVrat28pSozW xZGDN6KQj9K4axHfogsSXa3B8U/OM4v3zYCOuCGJsrZoCrUbM6gbkW1ekYoZZLlF ZFAOPW76Vef1LWTmX6BG4b/d0HZtFDlNWJduspYK57Xcm96CmQmYj8dWZESjgTdO fhEqw1Gsowtv7tCQhLQa8xNFDkKVdVBvFpFqshekyltiOK+n8kQF71P6s8PiPwAk ho3BpCS6z0ygah/ynEKnqg6nvCm+xRKMsx4S7RwPWa11lQSlykj0GvP3i6l8DAQK T63ebZYZKsZO3Rd69zTYyC+SUi5xT3hgmcAw+QxNw/LmMrCQUDXI5w== =l33R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--