From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:36474 "EHLO mail-wi0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165AbbCWH62 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:58:28 -0400 Received: by wibg7 with SMTP id g7so39945842wib.1 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:58:21 +0100 From: Alexander Aring Subject: Re: hardware recommendation Message-ID: <20150323075818.GA4069@omega> References: <8575BDE3-5617-49A9-AF9C-D0C9359E074E@cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8575BDE3-5617-49A9-AF9C-D0C9359E074E@cisco.com> Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Ralph Droms (rdroms)" Cc: "linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org" Hi Ralph, welcome back. On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 03:28:36PM +0000, Ralph Droms (rdroms) wrote: > What hardware - radio board, interface, Linux platform - are recommended for the 802.15.4 stack in the bluetooth-next kernel? > See [0]. Radio board: - I would advice a 2.4 Ghz at86rf231 or at86rf233 [1]. Supports async xmit handling and has the most supported hardware flags. Driver is at86rf230. Interface: - What you mean with interface? Bus Interface? -> SPI. Or netlink interface? -> nl802154 with wpan-tools. Don't understand the question. Linux platform: - I think you mean some architecture -> ARM. Then the platform, some board: The transceiver at [1] was made for RPi which works well on my side. But the RPi has a lack of mainline support. You have no USB, this means you have also no ethernet. If you don't need ethernet, then I would use a simple RPi. If you need ethernet I would advice to make some adapter board to add the [1] on a beaglebone [2], which have a good mainline support. This require some hardware hacking skills. Note: for RPi I also support you have no other support e.g. HDMI output or something else. SPI with RPi works mainline perfectly. > - Ralph > > BTW, is this list archived? Where? > Over google I detected that spinics archive this mailinglist [3] (but doesn't include the early days). - Alex [0] http://wpan.cakelab.org/ [1] http://openlabs.co/store/Raspberry-Pi-802.15.4-radio [2] http://beagleboard.org/ [3] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wpan/