Re: hardware recommendation

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> On Mar 26, 2015, at 2:44 AM 3/26/15, Maciej Wasilak <wasilak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ralph,
> 
> I confirm it's possible to use USB and Ethernet on RaspberryPi with bluetooth-next. You have to enable kernel options:
> 
> CONFIG_USB_DWC2_HOST
> CONFIG_USB_DWC2_PLATFORM 

Are there any other changes to a clone of bluetooth-next I need to make to build a Raspberry Pi kernel?  I tried naively building bluetooth-next with an updated, known good .config but the resulting kernel doesn't seem to be operational.

- Ralph

> 
> These options may not be enabled by default in bcm2835 config.
> 
> Regards
> Maciej Wasilak
> 
> 2015-03-26 5:41 GMT+01:00 Ralph Droms (rdroms) <rdroms@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 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/
> >
> 
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