From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50942 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754841AbcHATGd (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2016 15:06:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:10:53 -0400 From: Don Zickus Subject: Re: Looking for boards with an 802.15.4 chip Message-ID: <20160801181053.GV181121@redhat.com> References: <20160728174051.GB75405@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stefan Schmidt Cc: "aar@pengutronix.de" , "linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org" , "linville@redhat.com" On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On 28.07.2016 19:40, Don Zickus wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > 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 > > a bunch of boards. Some of those pointers don't work and the ones that do, > > show standalone boards that need to be wired up to a SPI bus. > > > > 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? > > You might be able to do this with some USB dongle exposing some GPIOs to > to the kernel but I never used anything like that. Most of my > transceivers are connected to Pi's. So it goes down to embedded. > > I'm in the lucky position though to have two ATUSB dongles which are > simple USB dongles and get connected to your x86 systems with ease. > They work out of the box in mainline since 4.1 and the firmware is open > source as well. The problem right now is that it is now longer being sold. This sounds like a simple way to get started... > > We are working on changing this though. See my mail from a few minutes > ago to this list about interest for a new ATUSB production batch. > Right now we would estimate them being on sale again sometime in October > (the smaller fabs we are using for SMT is on holiday and we also need to > prepare things in our spare time). > > If this is to far away, fair enough. If it does not really matter to you > and you would have an interest to use them please let me know so I can > better estimate the needed number of devices for the batch. I don't see an archives for this mailing list, so I can't see your previous email. How much would this cost? I might be up for buying 5 or so. Cheers, Don