> On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:58 AM 3/23/15, Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > > welcome back. Thanks! > > 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. OK. > > Interface: > - What you mean with interface? Bus Interface? -> SPI. Or netlink > interface? -> nl802154 with wpan-tools. Don't understand the > question. Bus interface. > > 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. [1] + Raspberry Pi is the sort of combination I was asking about. But, I'd also like to have Ethernet as well. I have a couple of BeagleBoard XMs; I ordered a couple of [1]s and I'll try to hack up an adapter. > 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/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
