[mc1322x] Radio demos

[Jon Smirl]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Mariano Alvira <mar at devl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:59:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>> I can compile now using the OE toolchain. I don't know what is wrong
>> with the Phytec one.
>>
>> Which radio demos work?
>
> rftest-tx and rftest-rx in mc1322x-tests are the "standard" radio test
> programs. You can use rftest-rx and rftestrx2pcap.pl to make pcaps
> that you can load into wireshark to examine (this is only helpful if
> you are sending packets in an 802.15.4 frame).

rftest-tx works. I am sniffing it live using a Raven stick. Wireshark
says a lot of the packets are malformed beacons.


> As for contiki, I've used nullmac and sicslowmac with success. xmac
> and lpp seem to have problems, but it's difficult to separate issues
> in contiki with issues in my radio driver. I believe the root of the
> problem is that there are assumptions in xmac and lpp regarding the
> radio driver blocking until the bytes are transmitted (since that's
> how a lot of the radio's contiki uses work). With the mc1322x radio
> you fill a buffer and DMA takes care of the rest and so it often
> returns before the bytes are transmitted. What I would like to do is
> change the radio driver from a contiki process over to an interrupt
> driven thing, but I haven't had a chance to work on that yet...
>
> I'd use sicslowmac (which is what is currently used in my repo). I've
> had success with example-mesh and with example-collect. Both of these

PRINTF isn't getting defined. Do you have some updates you need to
push out into the repo?

gcc -Wl,-Map=contiki-netsim.map,-export-dynamic  example-abc.co
contiki-netsim.a -L/usr/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib
-ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -o example-abc.netsim
contiki-netsim.a(route-discovery): In function `timeout_handler':
/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:287:
undefined reference to `PRINTF'
contiki-netsim.a(route-discovery): In function `route_discovery_discover':
/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:297:
undefined reference to `PRINTF'
contiki-netsim.a(route-discovery): In function `insert_route':
/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:135:
undefined reference to `PRINTF'
contiki-netsim.a(route-discovery): In function `rrep_packet_received':
/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:169:
undefined reference to `PRINTF'
/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:175:
undefined reference to `PRINTF'
contiki-netsim.a(route-discovery):/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime/../../core/net/rime/route-discovery.c:184:
more undefined references to `PRINTF' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [example-abc.netsim] Error 1
rm example-abc.co
jonsmirl at terra:/home/apps/contiki-mc1322x/examples/rime$


> are higher level RIME protocols and test a lot of the RIME
> primitives. example-abc is the most basic RIME test. I program the
> RIME address into NVRAM at 0x1E000, as in the example on the website:
>
> ./mc1322x-load.pl -f flasher.bin -s example-mesh.bin -t /dev/ttyUSB0
> 0x1e000,0x01020304,0x05060708
>
>
>> What's needed to get IPV6 going?
>
> That is a good question. I haven't gotten into that yet. I do plan to
> work on that soon though (over the next few months).
>
> -Mar.
>
>
>



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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com