2009/5/27 Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Dmitry, > > Le Tuesday 26 May 2009 13:21:57 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov, vous avez écrit : >> The project page is available at >> http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/linux-zigbee with source code of kernel >> part available from git at >> http://zigbee-linux.git.sourceforge.net, mirrored for convenience at >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lumag/lowpan.git >> >> The source code for userspace utils is available from git at >> http://linux-zigbee.git.sourceforge.net/ > > From the project page I understand that you plan on providing a ZigBee stack, > based on this 802.15.4 stack ? Do you plan on submitting the ZigBee stack > later on ? The ZigBee stack currently is in design stage of development. When it will be more or less "in shape" we will present it to the community. > Maybe you should mention that this implementation is royalty-free, but that > commercial products using it should both respect the GPL license and pay a > ZigBee royalty as per the ZigBee Alliance . That is just for clarification > since right now it simply does 802.15.4 which is not subject to this royalty > thing. We will look into this, thank you for putting our attention on this topic. > >> >> Several comments about our implementation: >> * As with 802.11 there are two types of devices: the smart ones that >> implement most parts of the protocol by themselves and more or less dumb >> ones which simply send and receive what they are told. Currently we do only >> support the second type of devices (SoftMAC) >> * The implementation is split between code driving radio, (master, mwpanX >> interface: mdev.c), code processing frames according the IEEE 802.15.4 >> rules (slave wpanX devices) and finally sockets (af_ieee802154.c, >> dgram.c, raw.c). > > This sounds good. Do you also plan on integrating some meshing algorithm on > top of 802.15.4 ? If so, Hmmm. IIUC the 802.15.4 doesn't have any knowledge about meshing. It's the part of higher level protocol. ZigBee part will of course contain some kind of routing/ meshing algos. If you'd like to implement mesing over raw 802.15.4, it's up to your protocol. We plan to provide all hooks necessary for doing this. >> * We do present two example drivers using our stack. One is purely virtual >> one either looping the packets back or connecting several virtual >> interfaces (the one at fakelb.c), and the driver for the Freescale MC13192 >> evaluation boards (13192-SARD, 13192-EVK) using our custom firmware >> (currently only available at request, we are working on publishing it). The >> driver for the Atmel at86rf230/at86rf231 chips will follow in several >> weeks. > > Is the virtual interface just like mac80211_hwsim for 802.11 ?h More or less.We do not implement the global 'monitor' interface, only separate radios. We have a page in the wiki that describes usage of this virtual device driver: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/linux-zigbee/wiki/GettingStarted -- With best wishes Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
