On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Jon Smirl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Andrew Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have been working on a serial mac driver similar to the serial phy
>>> driver except that it issues mac commands to the hardware rather than
>>> phy commands.  I did this to sidestep some of the performance issues I
>>> was having and because I needed an 802.15.4 compliant implementation
>>> quickly.  The firmware for the radio uses the 802.15.4 stack provided
>>> by Freescale (unfortunately in binary form only).  I can provide a
>>> patch if anyone is interested once I clean it up and bring it up to
>>> date (I'm still on an old kernel).
>>
>> Are you using the ROM on the mc13224?
>
> Actually, I've been using the mc13213.  I don't have a 13224 dev kit
> and haven't looked into what's available just yet.  I imagine that the
> MAC interface is quite similar between the two parts.

Cheap dev boards:
http://www.redwirellc.com/store/

Mar already has the mc13224 running with the in-kernel 802.15.4
support using those boards.

>
>>
>> I believe an open source link wrapper for the ROM exists.  Is having
>> access to the ROM enough, or do you need more code from the Freescale
>> kit.
>
> I'm trying to stick within the bounds of the 802.15.4 standard, so
> accessing the ROM should be acceptable.
>
>> Join the bandwagon of people complaining to Freescale to release
>> the source for the ROM or at least make an open source friendly dev
>> kit.
>
> Similar problem with the 13213 except that there is no ROM with the
> MAC in it, the MAC is just a library you link to.
>
>>
>> There is work going one here;
>> http://mc1322x.devl.org/
>> http://code.google.com/p/open-mc13224v/
>
> Thanks, I'll check it out.
>
>
> Andrew
>
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