On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Gerrit Voigt
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> how do I get access to the at86rf230 driver from user-space?

I haven't tried this... but I believe there is a generic module that
can be loaded that allows user space access to SPI devices. I'm sure
there is one for I2C and I think there is one for SPI also. Loading
the module will create devices in /dev and then you use IOCTLs to
control them.

> Do I go the regular way by opening(open()) a driver-file and then use
> ioctl()? I am asking because I don't really understand how izchat for
> instance gets access.
> For 8-bit systems it is necessary to use the
> Hardware-Abstraction-Layer(HAL) and Transceiver-Access-Toolbox(TAT) by
> Atmel.
> We built a protocol on top of the TAT and now we wonder how we can port
> it to linux.
> Does the HAL correspond to at86rf230-driver under Linux? And if so, what
> corresponds to the TAT?
> I am new to linux-driver and grateful for any help, hints etc..
> thanks and regards
> Gerrit
>
>
>
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