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 This wiki page is a bit out of date and does not address the serialforwarder issue (it also eliminates some tricky details about getting msp430-gcc to actually compile...)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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tinyos-help mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi- > bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi- > bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
