Jan, You are absolutely welcome to participate.
To answer your questions: 1. MIPS works. Christian Magnusson is the wizard at porting. 2. Slaves using owserver is the intended design. We don't currently implement adding/removing owservers sources while the owfs (or whatever) process is running, but there is nothing in the underlying design that would prevent it. We'd just have to ponder what the communication channel to the master should be for these events. 3. Timing is really 1-wire bus limited. OWFS is straight C code, and TCP/IP is small single packets. I'll test the timing if you wish -- what devices where you considering? 4. TCL doesn't use SWIG, I believe. Serg Oskin is the TCL implementer, and has been very active is fixing any problems. Paul Alfille -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jan Kandziora Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:54 PM To: owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Owfs-developers] First Post and some questions Dear All, I'm currently developing an automation project - a semiautomatic vending machine with a lot of devices attached remotely - in which I plan to use 1-Wire chips as interface to "the real world". I'm glad some people already developed something useful for 1-Wire and Linux. I have already played a little with owfs and the sample chips I have here, but now first questions arise: * The host platform will be MIPS (AMD Alchemy), not i386. May there be any problems with that e.g. Endian-issues? * The machine will have more than one host. I understood I can use "owserver" on the "slave" hosts (modified X-Terminals) to connect 1-Wire devices there and access them via TCP/IP. Correct? * How is the timing in this configuration? About 0.5 second granularity in 0-1-0 switches would be nice although 1 second is tolerable, too. * What's up with the Tcl binding? The ow.so file seems to be missing - at least, I could not make sense of the SWIG guided build process - know enough of SWIG to avoid it, though. I have knowledge in near-hardware programming in C and a little on the Tcl/C interface to address problems myself if there should arise any. Mind if I join the development team? However, I need someone to guide me - a project one didn't start self is totally confusing first. Kind regards Jan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
