August,

Thanks. This wiki page is a bit out of date and does not address
the serialforwarder issue (it also eliminates some tricky details
about getting msp430-gcc to actually compile...)

Can I edit the wiki page to add in some of the things we've
figured out?



On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 10:52 -0700, August Joki wrote:
> There is an installation page on the Tinyos Wiki for getting the telos
> platform working on Mac OS X.
> 
> http://cents.cs.berkeley.edu/tinywiki/index.php/Tmote_Macintosh_install
> 
> -August
> 
> On 5/3/06, Vinayak Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         Dear Prof Welsh,
>         
>         It is nice to see that you are getting encouraging results in
>         porting
>         TinyOS to Mac OS X :-) I have tried to do it multiple times in
>         the
>         past. I also followed existing postings by the people that
>         were 
>         successful in doing so. But I couldn't do a successful port.
>         May be
>         it's because of my lack of knowledge of TinyOS dependencies,
>         or Mac OS
>         portability issues, or both.
>         
>         I know that there many other folks like me. If you could
>         kindly post 
>         your experiences, that would be great! I will give it an
>         another try
>         :-)
>         
>         Thanks and good luck,
>         
>         - Vinayak
>         
>         On 5/3/06, Matt Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>         > Quick update:
>         >
>         > I have checked in a small change to tools/src/sf/sfsource.c
>         > that allows the C-based Serial Forwarder to work on MacOS.
>         >
>         > Onto getting the Java tools to talk to it (possibly by
>         excising 
>         > the dependency on javax.comm). Has anyone tried TOSComm on
>         MacOS?
>         >
>         > > I don't know a good answer to this. TinyOS 2.0 has thrown
>         off RXTX/
>         > > javax.comm because of all of the issues and uses its own
>         serial 
>         > > package (written by Cory Sharp). I haven't tried getting
>         it working
>         > > on OS X, however, and it isn't backwards-compatible with
>         1.x (there
>         > > is a slightly different serial protocol).
>         >
>         > OK, so this would be the TOSComm equivalent for Tinyos 2.x.
>         > Nice.
>         >
>         > > > have a lean 'serial daemon' that interfaces to the
>         serial port and
>         > > > could
>         > > > be (ideally) readily ported across many platforms; then
>         the Java tools 
>         > > > only need to understand how to talk to the daemon over a
>         socket.
>         > >
>         > > I agree, that would be a useful tool.
>         >
>         > Indeed. Does the C-based SF work on TinyOS 2.x?
>         >
>         > Matt
>         >
>         >
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