Mariano Alvira scrisse:
 
> The hard part about supporting new hardware platforms is dealing with
> the hardware: the radio, the UART, or doing USB->serial in the case of
> a chip that has USB builtin. Contiki doesn't help much with this.

I was recently pondering on this same issue, and while you're correct
on your opinion (ie. doing it directly through libmc1322 is lighter) I
believe Bastian's point was a bit different.

Going the contiki way may help for a good bunches of widely available
platform already supported by contiki but not yet by linux-zigbee
(yay, damn telos/sky, I'm looking at you too), as well as other
platforms which will be introduced in the future.

In this case, it makes sense to pass through another contiki radio layer
(core/dev/radio.h maybe? Is it the lowest abstraction?) together with a
contiki firmware similar to the one you did for mc1322, in order to
gain some more hardware options for interfacing, avoiding the task of a
firmware completely written from scratch.

Given all the above, I think Bastian proposal was good, and I'd like to
see it pushed on... 

Ciao, Luca

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