[mc1322x] Radio demos

[Jon Smirl]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I get the same error with TARGET=mc1322x.
savetarget is not working right in that directory.

>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
>



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