[mc1322x] Contiki tree resync

[Mariano Alvira]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:56:58PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> For a start...
> Does it compile?
> Does it boot?
> Do two or three random sample apps still work?

well yeah. 

> That's enough for this project. The quality control just needs to
> ensure that the mainline does not get into a completely
> non-functioning state.

I agree that this is good enough for you, me, and the few other people
using this. It would be nice to get to a point where >10 people use it
though... 

> The maintainer for this project should really be a Freescale employee
> and you are a trusted lieutenant. But we haven't done enough yet to
> get Freescale to abandon IAR. Freescale employees now maintain their
> ARCH ports on Linux.

...I agree that this would be best, but this seems like a hopeless
cause to me.
 
> A more cost effective way to do a gateway is to use a $60
> Linksys/Dlink wireless router with USB printer support. Reflash it
> with dd-wrt or openwrt and add the driver for the 802.15.4 USB stick.
> ipv6 is already enabled in the WRT kernels.  You can do this with your
> existing hardware but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm still
> using my desktop PC as the router and a Raven USB stick.
> 
> With IPV6 it's not a gateway, it a router. Since they contain state
> gateways are a completely unreliable pain. It is always better to go
> routable IP everywhere and eliminate the gateway.

I probably misused the word gateway then.

Also, are you talking about the 802.15.4 linux stack? and the serial
driver for that? Beacuse that's another thing that should get resync'd
someday.

-Mar.